Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Francis Bacon

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.

Herman Melville

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Karl Kraus

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lewis E. Lawes

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

Josh Billings

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word queer is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

Derek Jarman

The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

Oscar Wilde

In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

Brett Favre

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

Kurt Vonnegut

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Kahlil Gibran

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

William Hazlitt

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Chogyam Trungpa