The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

Leo Tolstoy

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

George Gurdjieff

Every step in the dark turns out in the end to have been on course after all.

John Tarrant, Bring Me The Rhino

Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.

Arthur Peacocke

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.

Timothy Geithner

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

Linda Lavin

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

Creighton Abrams

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Blaise Pascal

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

Harlan Coben

In the midst of life we are in debt.

Ethel Watts Mumford