People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

Andrew Weil

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

Max Lucado

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

Francis Bacon

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Ernest Hemingway

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.

Alan Thicke

What is does a person profit if they gain the whole world and lose their soul.

Bible

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing, but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

J. Frank Doble

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Henry James

Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the 'Waterloo' Republicans dream of.

Thomas Frank

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

Corliss Lamont

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Robert A. Cook

It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.

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