My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer.

Dejan Stojanovic

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Thomas Merton

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

Thomas Jefferson

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Christopher Lasch

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Johann von Goethe

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

Wayne Dyer

In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.

Christian Lous Lange

A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

George Eliot

You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

Jacob Bronowski

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

George Eliot

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Aristotle