When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Christian Nevell Bovee

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

My mother told me that truth is like my skin, a beautiful, protective covering, and the things that people say or do can be easily changed or discarded. She told me truth comes from the heart.

Stewart Lewis

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

John Keegan

When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

Elisabeth Elliot

Ennobling this dull pomp, the life of kings, By contemplation of diviner things.

Matthew Arnold

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.

Anthony Robbins

My wife had her drivers test the other day. She got 8 out of 10. The other 2 guys jumped clear.

Rodney Dangerfield

Might does not make right, it only makes history.

Jim Fiebig

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

John F. Kennedy

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

John Green