There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

Gustav Klimt

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

Holly Black

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Jeremy Taylor

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

Isaac Watts

The belief that becomes truth for me - is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action

Andre Gide

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

Stephen Hawking

Perhaps we feel inclined to disagree with Him. But there's a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you couldn't be right and He wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you're arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it's like cutting off the branch you're sitting on.

C.S. Lewis

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

Mary Wesley

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

Lord Chesterfield