If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.

Terry Pratchett

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

Jenny Slate

People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.

Johann von Goethe

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William James

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo DaVinci

A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.

Jonathan Sacks

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits -- and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

Simone Weil

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

James McGreevey

Beauty is everything.

Jorja Fox

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

Toni Morrison

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

Robert Powell

The Bible is God's sacred Word of truth.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford