Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Thomas Mann

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

C.S. Lewis

What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit...

Hiroko Sakai

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Dorothy Day

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.

Dominic Monaghan

If I told you that I wanted to spend my days and nights with you, live with you, as my partner, because out there, in Hell, I realised that you mean the world to me? That you are my sanity, my laughter, my lust, my love, my comfort, my day and my night, my heat and cold and everything? If I told you that, would you think that translates to 'convenient'?

Marquesate

It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.

Gwen Moore

They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.

Terry Pratchett

These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

Chuck Palahniuk

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening...http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/109.html

Matthew Arnold, Thyrsis: A Monod

I was suddenly arrested by what seemed to be an awful voice proclaiming the words, Eternity! Eternity! Eternity! It reached my very soul

Stephen Grellet, Memoirs of the