One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

There is no greater force for change than people inspired to live a better life.

Steve Maraboli

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

Charles Hodge

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock

Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

Peter Agre

With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

Jeff Goodell

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.

Elizabeth Bowen

I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.

David Walliams

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Michel de Montaigne

ThereÂ’s a land where the mountains are nameless,

Robert William Service, The Spel

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

Lydia Maria Child, Philothea: A