Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

Mandy Patinkin

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.

William Ellery Channing

Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

Carl Nielsen

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. The Root Of The Righteous

A. W. Tozer

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

Bishop Robert South

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

Ben Elton

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Tryon Edwards

Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything new. Devotion enables surrender of the mind's vanities and cherished illusions so that it progressively becomes more free and more open to the light of Truth.

David R. Hawkins

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe