There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Charity is the scope of all God's commands.

St. John Chrysosatom

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Paul Cezanne

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy;The books that people talk about we never can recall;And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

Carolyn Wells, On Books

You only stop learning when you quit.

Ruud Gullit

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

Hamid Karzai

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Amelia E. Barr

People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself.

Preity Zinta

I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever.

Tim Allen

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

Rob Bell

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

Johann von Goethe, Wilhelm Meist

Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off.

Sir Arnold Lunn

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

Robertson Davies