More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Elias A. Ford

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Helen Keller

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

Mary Renault

But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there's always a little love left, underneath. Yes. Horrible, isn't it?

N. K. Jemisin

I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.

Pat Robertson

No good deed goes unpunished.(attributed aphorism)

Clare Boothe Luce, The Book of L

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Samuel Smiles

Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

William Wordsworth

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

Dejan Stojanovic

Truth does not happen, it just is.

American Indian Proverb, Hopi

For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

Iain Duncan Smith

This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.

Charisma Carpenter