Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Jim Rohn

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

Malcolm De Chazal

It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'

Neale Donald Walsch

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Robert Hall

One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.

Tony Bright

We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Khalil Gibran

Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.

Rob Glaser

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

Dominic Monaghan

I've always been the long-term relationship, go-home-and-meet-mom girl.

Sophia Bush

Lady Jane Gray, who tho' inferior to her lovely Cousin the Queen of Scots, was yet an amiable young woman

Jane Austen