I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

Joel Osteen

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

Mark Twain

onen i-estel edain, u-chebin estel anim(I give hope to men. I keep none for myself.)

J.R.R. Tolkien

The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?

Steven Wright

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

David Herbert Lawrence

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

Rick Ross

Opera once was an important social instrument -- especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.

Luciano Berio

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

Anon.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Paul Ricoeur

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Bertrand Russell

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca