The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

To me marriage is for five or ten years.

Cher

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.

Abraham Lincoln

If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.

Colin Bateman

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Samuel Johnson

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Sir Robin Day

Don't wait for other people to be loving, giving, compassionate, grateful, forgiving, generous, or friendly... lead the way!

Steve Maraboli

To him who, in the love of Nature, holdsCommunion with her visible forms, she speaksA various language.

William Cullen Bryant, Thanatops

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

E. Stanley Jones

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not obtained by sudden flight,But they, while their companions slept,Were toiling upward in the night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Religion and science are opposed...but only in the same sense as that in which my thumb and forefinger are opposed - and between the two, one can grasp everything.

William Bragg

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

Andrew Ross