Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.

Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.

Charles Williams

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

George Bernard Shaw

It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.

Paulo Coelho

I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life.

Robert Iler

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

Adlai E. Stevenson II

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Emile M. Cioran

When you let people into the inner sanctum of your life, you risk having them see the heart of you. (from Vanishing Acts)

Jodi Picoult

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Our hope, and it's a sad hope, is that... well, I mean we need a tip. That's why we have such a big reward. We just hope that someone is holding her for her child and that we can, you know, get her back with a tip.

Scott Peterson

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.

Archbishop Derek Worlock

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

Lenny Kravitz