A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

Captain Beefheart

Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.

William O. Douglas

Psalm 139 and Jeremiah 29:11

Bible N T Gospels Selections

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

Simon Wiesenthal

It is not what we know that scares us, it is what we do not

A.G. Phillips

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Jane Austen

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

Gregory David Roberts

I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.

Patrick Warburton

I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness.

Hugh Jackman

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

William Osler

Time discovered truth.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Jodi Picoult