Suffering has its place in the scheme of things. It serves a purpose even though the sufferer may be entirely free from the taint of sin... Among the gentlest and sweetest souls are sometimes found those who suffer much. A person that accepts his lot, does his best, loving both God and man, is a success and will experience a joy in living.

It is a common thing for men to benumb their own arms, and make them as dead and useless by leaning too much upon them: so it is in a moral as well as a natural way: all the prudence and pains in the world avail nothing without God. So saith the Psalmist, in Psalm cxxvii. 2.

John Flavel, Sermon: The Success

My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Philip Levine

True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.

Alek Wek

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Isak Dinesen

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Jean de la Bruyere

Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm liquid flowing down her cheeks, and thought confusedly of blood, but it was tears, only tears, clear and shining on her fingertips when she wiped them away.

J.K. Rowling

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

Michael Caine

You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.

Carre Otis

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

E. O. Wilson

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

Mike Murdock

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.

Peter Hammill

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

Sir Henry Taylor