My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Simone Weil

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Hector Hugh Munro

In peace we can make many of them ignore good and evil entirely; in danger, the issue is forced upon them in a guise to which even we cannot blind them. There is here a cruel dilemma before us. If we promoted justice and charity among men, we should be playing directly into the Enemy's hands; but if we guide them to the opposite behaviour, this sooner or later produces (for He permits it to produce) a war or a revolution, and the undisguisable issue of cowardice or courage awakes thousands of men from moral stupor.This, indeed, is probably one of the Enemy's motives for creating a dangerous world-a world in which moral issues really come to the point. He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty, or mercy, which yieldsto danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.(the enemy referred to is God)

C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letter

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

Elbert Hubbard

Our first and last love is self-love.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Anthony Robbins

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Tom Perrotta

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

James Thurber

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

Lesley Garrett

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

Michael Chang

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

Christopher Fry, "New York Post"

Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X