We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.

Howie Mandel

Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.

Oscar Wilde

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Virginia Woolf

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

Laura Anne Gilman

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

Peter Kreeft

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Michael Leboeuf

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas A. Edison

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say -- Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.... He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness.

Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For H