Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon:As yet the early-rising SunHas not attain'd his noon.We have short time to stay, as you,We have as short a Spring;As quick a growth to meet decayAs you, or any thing.

Robert Herrick, To Daffodils

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

Jesus Christ

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

Jessica Savitch

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Brian Tracy

The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.

George Bernard Shaw

Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.

Patti Callahan Henry

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English

George Bernard Shaw

The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.

Marcel Proust

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

Philip Roth

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

Mortimer Adler

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

Publilius Syrus

This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.

Jeremy Taylor