There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten -- before the end is told -- even if there happens to be any end to it.

The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment, He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an obstacles to our return to God: a few moments of happy love, a landscape, a symphony, a merry meeting with out friends, a bathe or a football match, have no such tendency. Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

C.S. Lewis

Anyone believing in Cosmic Ordering wants for nothing.

Stephen Richards

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

Adam Sandler

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Oscar Wilde

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

Albert Einstein

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/zapata.htm

Emiliano Zapata

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

Ace Frehley

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.

Fiona Apple

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

Confucius

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Hubert Humphrey

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Brian Eno

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Anne Frank