There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

Nathaniel Branden

You are the music while the music lasts.

T. S. Eliot

Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.

Jane Austen

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

Aldous Huxley

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Jane Austen

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms. Confusion here is fatal.

J. I. Packer

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.

Proverb

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

Eliot Spitzer

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Adam Smith

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Honore de Balzac

Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.

Cassandra Clare