I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

He knew that any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things. One could open a book to any page, or look at a person's hand; one could turn a card, or watch the flight of birds... whatever the thing observed, one could find a connection with his experience of the moment. Actually, it wasn't that those things, in themselves, revaled anything at all; it was just that people, looking at what was ocurring around them, could find a means of penetration to the Soul of the World.

Paulo Coelho

...no one has ever doubted you would die for those you love ... the question then becomes would you live?--The Secret of the Keepers

Elizabeth Isaacs

Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.

Samantha Stosur

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

Gene Tierney

As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.

Lance Loud

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Carl Sandburg

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Virginia Woolf

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

Luigi Pirandello

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Edward R. Murrow

What you enjoy is yours; what you save for your heirs, is already not yours, but theirs.

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