Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing.

Today I am even richer.

Stephen Richards

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Michel de Montaigne

On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.

Angela Merkel

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best safety lies in fear.

William Shakespeare

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Mahatma Gandhi

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm

Stephen King

I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant.

Jason Behr

I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.

Neil Gaiman

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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