A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Democracy is only an experiment in government and it as the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.

I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work.

Noble spirits are heterodox.

In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.

The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.

Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts.

'Match of the Day' is a great programme to be on. It's a programme I used to be allowed to stay up and watch from the age of 10, so to think that one day I'd actually appear on it was great.

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone.

I'm the 'Muskrat Love' girl.

It's healthy to have interests besides books.

If the characters are compelling, readers will follow anywhere.

I needed real help in New York and I had no friends. I looked up at those buildings, I couldn't see the sky or nothing, and I said, 'Well, there ain't no mountain high enough,' and I just started - the words just fell out of my mouth, really.

Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.

I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

The clothes at Style369 are fashionable - and have a great sense of fit for curvy girls.

For me, I always feel that I'm not sure what's going to happen next year or what's going to happen the year after or what's in the future. So I really kind of just focus on the project at hand and try to do the best that I can. And that, for me, is as much as I can control.