O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul.

Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands.

Terry Pratchett

Different men seek after happiness indifferent ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it

Tobias Wolff

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

Anne Perry

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

Ron Fournier

Style is the image of character.

Edward Gibbon

My message is that God is a good God.

Joel Osteen

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

W. H. Auden

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

Jane Austen

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

Felix Adler

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Hermann Hesse

Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don't intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or no intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of control....Sometimes things take on a life of their own. You become powerless. There is nothing you can do to stop certain things from happening.

Dana Reinhardt