That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.

Christopher Hitchens

Every human being, he believed, must do one of three basic things during his lifetime: leave something living, create something lovely, or make something better.

Renee Manfredi

I heard that in relativity theory, space and time are the same thing. Einstein discovered this when he kept showing up three miles late for his meetings.

Steven Wright

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

Ving Rhames

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Miguel de Cervantes

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

Charlaine Harris

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

George Orwell

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Buddha

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

John Muir, A ThousandMile Walk t