Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

Peter Singer

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.

John Powell

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

Pablo Casals

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him

William Penn

Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.

Toba Beta

If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.

Proverb

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Octavio Paz

When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.

Joan Marques

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Henry Van Dyke

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

Dick Butkus

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

Jennifer Aniston