In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Learning to see the world as it truly is - saturated with the presence and love of God - should be the essence of Christian discipleship, or what many call spiritual formation.

Skye Jethani

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Will Rogers

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

Orison Swett Marden

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Time is that in which all things pass away.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Xenophon

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.

Alexandra Fuller

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Blaise Pascal

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Arthur C. Clarke

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

Nick Rahall

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing; yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.

Ezra Pound