The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

Sargent Shriver

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel that we will continue to have a non-violent movement, and we will continue to find the vast majority of Negroes committed to non-violence, at least as the best tactical approach and from a pragmatic point of view as the best strategy in dealing with the problem of racial injustice. Realism impels me to admit, however, that when there is justice and the pursuit of justice, violence appears, and where there is injustice and frustration, the potentialities for violence are greater, and I would like to strongly stress the point that the more we can achieve victories through non-violence, the more it will be possible to keep the non-violent discipline at the center of the movement. But the more we find individuals facing conditions of frustration, conditions of disappointment and seething despair as a result of the slow pace of things and the failure to change conditions, the more it will be possible for the apostles of violence to interfere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

Kahlil Gibran

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

Catherine Booth

He spoke of humor, and thought it must be one of the chief attributes of God. He cited plants and animals that were distinctly humorous in form and in their characteristics. These he declared were God's jokes.

Mark Twain

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

Doris Lessing

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.

Gustav Mahler, Advice to his wif

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.

Christian Nevell Bovee

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Plutarch

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

Bertrand Russell

One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.

Japanese Proverb