"No one who had any sense has ever liked school."

-- Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby

“Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.”
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.”
“If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.”
“Character is a wish for a perfect education.”
“Let's begin to cover the main street of America... just to see what the heck occurs on it.”
“I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned”
“To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.”
“A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability - if you try even a little bit - to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction.”

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