Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

Frederik Pohl

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Susan Sontag

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

Conrad Hall

Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

Victor Hugo

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

Khaled Hosseini

Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.

Teri Garr

Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration; stillness was lasting.

Jane Rogers

With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.

Iain Duncan Smith

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

Patrick Swift

The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Micheal Mescon

If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.

William Shakespeare

Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May -- how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

George Robert Gissing