You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be a failure.

Thoughtful minds make little use of this expression: the happy and the unhappy. In this world, clearly a vestibule of another, no one is happy.

Victor Hugo

Life is too short no matter what party you are with.

Scott Baio

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Beverley Baxter

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Philo

Press no further with hate.

Virgil

Fail faster, try again sooner.

Anonymous

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

Robert Musil

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Lord Byron

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

John Polkinghorne

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Publilius Syrus

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Ed McMahon