Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

It's easy to see, hard to foresee.

Benjamin Franklin

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Henry Ward Beecher

It seems to have had an order, to have been composed by someone, and those events that were merely accidental when they happened turn out to be the main elements in a consistent plot. Who composed this plot? Just as your dreams are composed, so your whole life has been composed by the will within you. Just as the people who you met by chance became effective agents in the structuring of your life, so you have been the agent in the structuring of other lives. And the whole thing gears together like one big symphony, everything influencing and structuring everything else. It's as though our lives were the dream of a single dreamer in which all of the dream characters are dreaming too. And so everything links to everything else moved out of the will in nature...It is as though there were an intention behind it yet it is all by chance. None of us lives the life that he had intended.

Joseph Campbell, source uncertai

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

Edwin Louis Cole

Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human lives.

Santosh Kalwar

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

Yogi Berra

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

Lev Grossman

My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.

Jane Fonda

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

River Phoenix

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.

Michel de Montaigne

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Oscar Wilde