A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

Ralph Ellison

Learning to see the world as it truly is - saturated with the presence and love of God - should be the essence of Christian discipleship, or what many call spiritual formation.

Skye Jethani

Before I could reply, he had picked me up, literally swept me off my feet, and kissed me. And afterwards, when I tried to speak, he silenced me in much the same manner. It was a shock (but not at all distasteful) to be so caught up. Later - when he at last set me down - he handled me more gently. He took of my glasses and told me that he loved me.

Jennifer Paynter

My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a wholepackage of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby. Sometimesshe has to cancel the rest of the afternoon's appointments.

Steven Wright

Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science.

K.W. Jeter

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Edmund Burke

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

Alan Moore

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

H. L. Mencken

Everybody's funny if you love them.

Anna Torv

I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained.

Charlize Theron

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

Robertson Davies

Hollywood has gone from Pola to Polaroid.

Pola Negri