We never with our eyes saw our own soul; yet we have a soul. We see many rivers, but we know not their first spring and original fountain; yet they have a beginning. ...When ye are come to the other side...set down your foot on the shore of glorious eternity, and look back again to the waters and to your wearisome journey, and shall see, in that clear glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom, ye shall then be forced to say, 'If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoying of this crown of glory.' It is your part now to believe, and suffer, and hope, and wait on...

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

Zeal is like fire: it needs both feeding and watching.

Proverb

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

Neil Gaiman

Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.

Gary Lineker

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

Felix Baumgartner

Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends.

Francis Quarles

The gratitude that you feel leads to faith in the abundance and with every resonance that radiates from your mind more strong feelings of faith start to reside in you.

Stephen Richards

when man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle.

Voltaire

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active not passive observers.

James Humes

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

Wilhelm Dilthey

I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

Valerie Bertinelli