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“One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.”
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“I didn't think [Ella Enchanted] would get published. Everything I'd written till then had been rejected. If it was published, I thought it might sell a few thousand copies and go out of print. I thought if I was lucky I could write more books and get them published, too. I still pinch myself over the way things have worked out.”
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“All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.”
Source : Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”
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“One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.”
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“A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.”
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“When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven, but the gods sent storms of wind and overthrew the tower, and gave every one his peculiar language; and for this reason it was that the city was called Babylon.”
Source : Flavius Josephus (1852). “The works of Flavius Josephus: the learned and authentic Jewish historian”, p.54
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“If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.”
Source : "Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 12, 1977.
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“In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.”
