• The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

- Cicero, 55 B.C.

• Skepticism has not founded empires, established principles, or changed the world's heart. The great doers of history have always been men of faith.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

• What comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

- A.W. Tozer

• For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Sin would have few takers if its consequences occurred immediately.

- W.T. Purkiser

• Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is.

- Yogi Berra

• It's not our abilities that show what we truly are; it's our choices.

- J.K. Rowling

• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes play on.

- John Keats

• No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

- Chuck Palahniuk

• This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.

- J.M. Barrie

• We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

- Margaret Atwood

• I was here convinced of the truth of a reflection I had often made, that if it was the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

—Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

• "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where-," said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. "-so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough." -Lewis Carroll

• Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, everyday, to make life simpler.

- Albert Camus

• So, my little Amélie, you don't have bones of glass. You can take life's knocks. If you let this chance pass, eventually, your heart will become as dry and brittle as my skeleton. So, go get him, for Pete's sake!

- Amelie

• I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald