It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor -- Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.

Mother Theresa

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Mary Roberts Rhinehart

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

Italo Calvino

Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?

Henry James

I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.

Ernest Hemingway

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'the serpent saying to Eve

George Bernard Shaw, Back to Met

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

Ralph Cudworth

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Napoleon Hill

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke, Speech on Concilia

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

Jose Marti

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

Brennan Manning