At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

There is a distinct difference between the ability to create life and the innate need to protect it; to cherish it. The life you've created is the one being you love most in the universe, and that intense love evolves into something that goes far beyond a sense of duty. It is instinct; pure and undeniable. As a direct result, one must neglect all else to preserve it. Even those we have claimed to love before.

Jamie McGuire

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Michel de Montaigne

Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!

Larry David

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

Tony Campolo

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

John Steinbeck

The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Charles Dickens

As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Samuel Johnson

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Colin Powell

The more we have the less we own.

Meister Eckhart

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

William Shakespeare

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

Naomi Wolf