The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust

Brennan Manning, The Dick Staub

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Kurt Vonnegut

A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Edna Ferber

Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

Paul Feig

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.

Scott Thompson

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Carolyn Heilbrun

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.

Robert Anthony

You know, there were major problems in my marriage.

Hulk Hogan

We have a problem. Congratulations. But it's a tough problem. Then double congratulations.

W. Clement Stone

I see the eight of us with our 'Secret Annexe' as if we were a little piece of blue heaven, surrounded by heavy black rain clouds. The round, clearly defined spot where we stand is still safe, but the clouds gather more closely about us and the circle which separates us from the approaching danger closes more and more tightly. Now we are so surrounded by danger and darkness that we bump against each other, as we search desperately for a means of escape. We all look down below, where people are fighting each other, we look above, where it is quiet and beautiful, and meanwhile we are cut off by the great dark mass, which will not let us go upwards, but which stands before us as an impenetrable wall; it tries to crush us, but cannot do so yet. I can only cry and implore: 'Oh, if only the black circle could recede and open the way for us!'

Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Fr

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Italian Proverb