A nation is the same people living in the same place.

Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period.

Source Unknown

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

David Bowie

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

William Gibson

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Ayn Rand

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Samuel Beckett

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

Yogi Berra

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Hermann Hesse

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Robert Sheckley

Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, 'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.

John Green

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

Nicholas Sparks

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.

Jean Vanier