There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

T. D. Jakes

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

John Ruskin

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

William Shakespeare

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

B.H. Roberts

The crowds in the big towns, with their mild, knobby faces, their bad teeth and gentle manners solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding roads, green fields and red pillar boxes.

George Orwell

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

A.E. Housman

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.

Eric Clapton

From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust.

William James, Pluralistic Unive

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Vincent Van Gogh

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

Clare Short