There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Francis Bacon

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles the love, not the disappointments the common sense, not the complexities.

Fred G. Gosman

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

Michael Behe

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

Mark Miller

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

Marquis de Sade

New Orleans in an amazing town.

Benjamin Walker

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Edward Dowden

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.

Mary Beth Whitehead

I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.

Teresa Palmer

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

Jose Narosky

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.

David Beaty