Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

The real truth is that while He came to preach the gospel, His chief object in coming was that there might be a gospel to preach.

R. W. Dale

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Jean de la Bruyere

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Samuel Beckett

Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period.

Source Unknown

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

Stendhal

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

J.K. Rowling

Wisdom never lies

Homer

A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles -- whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled -- is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these anti-conditions, your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

Linda Evans

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Abbas Kiarostami

I don't think any other city in the world... the sun doesn't shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone's very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way, but you're just constantly interacting and learning.

Ben Lovett

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Harold J. Smith