You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

Augustine Birrell

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Bertrand Russell

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

Etty Hillesum

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

John Piper

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

Daniel Day-Lewis

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Ray L. Wilbur

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

Kent Nerburn

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

Heidi Klum

I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.

Elayne Boosler