Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Alexander Pope

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

The poem refreshes life so that we share, For a moment, the first idea... It satisfies Belief in an immaculate beginning And sends us, winged by an unconscious will, To an immaculate end.

Wallace Stevens

There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.

Arne Duncan

The composition of this book has been for the author a long struggle of escape, and so must the reading of it be for most readers if the authors assault upon them is to be successful,a struggle of escape from habitual modes of thought and expression. The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

John Maynard Keynes

I may not be where I want to be, but if I stop now, I'll NEVER get where I'm going!

Laura Lynch

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most

Mark Twain

It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more improbable and nothing but an imitation of God's, exercises a strange attraction.

Allan Bloom

My mother is a beauty.

Mary-Louise Parker

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

G. K. Chesterton

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold.-

Mervyn Peake

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

Oscar Wilde