Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. She had made her g's the same way he did : he searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son.

J.K. Rowling

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Oscar Wilde

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Eric Hoffer

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Stephen King

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

Chuck Hagel

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

W. S. Gilbert

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

Diablo Cody

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The realisation that limitations are imaginary will make you strong and overpowering.

Stephen Richards

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Robert Frost