Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.

Andrew Holleran

From shadows and symbols into the truth!

John Henry Newman

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself, All right, then, I'll GO to hell.

Mark Twain

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

John Millington Synge

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Trey Parker

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Johann von Goethe

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

Koichi Tanaka

The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

James K. Polk

At one time, we all were Gods.

Bjorn Street

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

Jean Paul Richter

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

Ed Miliband