Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But when we believe that giving is the way to live, we will produce more in the future - life seems abundant.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

John Burroughs

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

Norman Schwarzkopf

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

Emeril Lagasse

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

Graham Greene

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

Johann von Goethe

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.

Samuel Johnson

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

William Ewart Gladstone

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth.

Margaret Walker

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

Emily Bronte