I traveled among unknown men, in lands beyond the sea; nor England! did I know till then what love I bore to thee.

The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

Ambrose Bierce

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

Craig Johnston

God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.

Ramakrishna

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Arthur C. Clarke

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Havelock Ellis

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Jean Paul Sartre

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.

Simon Greenleaf

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

William Hazlitt

A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.

Cordell Hull

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

Jonathan Sacks

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Samuel Johnson