Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Charles A. Lindbergh

When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.

Lewis Carroll

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Jean Kerr

It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

Iris Murdoch

The human spirit sublimatesthe impulses it thwarts:a healthy sex life mitigatesthe lust for other sports.

Piet Hein

They (the days) come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Einstein said that genius begins where rules end. He did however help invent nuclear weapons inadvertently and we've plunged toward a new world order since then as a result. One world or none - it seems the path cannot change. I'd go with Robert Frost on taking the path not traveled.

James Dye

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Albert Einstein

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Leo Buscaglia

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Jane Austen