Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.

Helmut Walcha

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.

Victor Hugo

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

Alfred North Whitehead

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information -- never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good -- he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

Plato

I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

Oliver Hudson

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.

Ivan Illich

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Seneca

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Jesus Christ

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Never forget that if you are God's child through Jesus Christ, you are praying to a Father who couldn't love you more than he already does.

Bill Hybels