Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

Taylor Caldwell, Honoria, 1957

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Plato

One thing I've learned is when you find a best friend in this life, you better hang on.

Jim Nabors

It is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hunger and with front-seat drivers and back-seat drivers contradicting each other in a bedlam of voices, shouting

Adlai Stevenson, On the Republic

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves

George Bernard Shaw

Count the cost of your calling, find the value of your dream, and most of all find your place in His love.

Deborah Brodie

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather.

Donald Grey Barnhouse

After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.

Sarah Dessen

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Eric Hoffer

God give me the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed;Give me courage to change things which must be changed;And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr