Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

George Eliot

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.

Anthony Robbins

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plato

My heart does not desire what my eyes does not admire.

Habeeb Akande

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.

Jon Hamm

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

Sir Thomas Browne

My objection to Liberalism is this -- that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind -- namely, politics -- of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Benjamin Disraeli

Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

William Hazlitt, Sketches and Es

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me then another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

Jane Welsh Carlyle