Our soul's perfection is our life's purpose; any other purpose, keeping death in mind, has no substance.

Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had adopted the prevaricator's credo that one doesn't so much fabricate a lie as marry it. A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help. By contrast, my lie needed me as much as I needed it, and so demanded the constancy of wedlock: Till death do us part.

Lionel Shriver

If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the world would be a more peaceful, better place where success in all forms is abundant and available to all. (A Gift to My Children)

Jim Rogers

I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

Marian Wright Edelman

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

Hugo Weaving

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

Toba Beta

Thinking will never be a waste of time, because it prevents you from wasting time in the future.

Vinh Khanh Huynh

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.

Rosaleen Dickson

I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

Steven Wright

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Robert Frost

The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.

Saskia de Brauw

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

Orson Pratt