It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove without catching hold, and it was impossible to stop turning it.

The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

G.K. Chesterton

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

Elizabeth Goudge

Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer.

Cassandra Clare

Long Distance training can be a positive

John Bingham

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Georges Bernanos

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

Luciano Pavarotti

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

May Sarton

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce

Impossibility only lasts until you find new unbelievable hard evidences.

Toba Beta

It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn

Walt Disney, On being a celebrit

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein