The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.

As long as we have an unjust society, like we do now, we will never have a loving society. If you don

Jane Elliot, speech at Wait Chap

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

J. K. Rowling

Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Last night I fell asleep in a satellite dish. My dreams were broadcast all over the world.

Steven Wright

I have great hope that some patriotic spirit will, at a favorable moment, call (up the law for religious freedom) and make it the keystone of the arch of our government

Thomas Jefferson

Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

Benjamin Franklin

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

Jane Austen

Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.

George Weinberg

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Robert Frost

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Don Johnson

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

George Porter