The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

Terry Pratchett

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

William Shakespeare

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

J. C. Watts

Every drop in the ocean counts.

Yoko Ono

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

You can change friends but not neighbours.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing.

Andy Andrews

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.

Graham Greene

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

Eben Alexander