"The secret of the Christian's passion is simple: Everything we do in life we do it as to the Lord and not to men."

“I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.”

“The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD).”

“Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else...”

“Of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down.”

Source : "Chu backpedals on call for higher gas prices". www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2012.

“She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from the core of mystery that gives a secret its special delight, religion its awe. It demanded to be accepted by simple faith, not dissected or questioned, and at the same time, it begged to be doubted and probed.”

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”

Source : Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.235, Vintage

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”

Source : John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs. [”

“You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.”

Source : "Honore: Sandbags won't save your life", www.cnn.com. March 27, 2009.