Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

Ninon De L'Enclos

I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Call the bald man, Boy; make the sage thy toy; greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his grace.

Helen Rowland

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

Augustine Birrell

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

Anthony Trollope

It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently.

Keith Bellows

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

Orson Scott Card

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Corrie Ten Boom

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

George MacDonald

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

P. G. Wodehouse