They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Isaiah 2:4

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Henry Ford

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Samuel Butler

You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

Johann von Goethe

Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.

William Shakespeare

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

Jose Marti

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks.

Douglas William Jerrold

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Marcel Marceau

Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.

Jim Lampley

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Joyce Meyer