Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Jeremy Taylor

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

Samuel Johnson

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Thomas Paine

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God... and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

Orson F. Whitney

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

Allen Ginsberg

I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.

Jimmy Smits

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

Tea should be taken in solitude.

C.S. Lewis

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

C.S. Lewis

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it

Erica Jong

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Thomas Carlyle

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Hal Borland