No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.

The ultimate umpire of all things in life is -- fact.

Agnes C. Laut

Cry havoc! and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

William Shakespeare

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.

Ambrose Bierce

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Stephen King

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Abraham Cowley

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Martin Buber

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?

George Eliot

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

Marshall McLuhan

That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

Agatha Christie

There are many truely horrible things goin' on in the world whilst we're lost to the druthers over spilled milk.

James Dye

Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.

John Donne