Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates to Jesus, is based on a different thing: Mary initiated a new generation of grace. A new era began. She is the cosmic bride, Earth, which opens to the heavens and allows itself to be fertilized.

Paulo Coelho

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

H. L. Mencken

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

Source Unknown

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Louis XIV

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

Ron White

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

Brian Lumley

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

Phillip E. Johnson

Beauty is only skin deep but evil cuts straight through the soul.

Lauren Hammond

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Walt Disney

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Paul Valery

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Ralph Waldo Emerson