The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf.

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

Blaise Pascal

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Smiley Blanton

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Henry Fielding

Listening: A wise old owl sat in an oak. The longer he sat, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why can't we be like that wise old bird?

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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Hannah Arendt

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

Julius Erving

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.

Randy Forbes

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.

Henry David Thoreau

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

Gordon Brown

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Victor Hugo