It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark....

The simple lack of her is more to me than others presence.

Edward Thomas

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Charles Franklin Kettering

He who has a "why" to live for can bear any "how".

Nietsche

Like a ball bated back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Yogabindu Upanishad

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne, Meditation XVII from

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

John Clayton

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Thomas Jefferson

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.

Joseph Fiennes

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Agnes Macphail

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Alfred de Musset

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

George Eliot