Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.
-Proverbs
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.
-Nicholas Sparks
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Why impress false religion on the world? It will be of no service to it. Why run about for the sake of wealth? You cannot escape from death… Think, O think, you thoughtless fool, you shall have in the end to depart alone.
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
-Thomas Sowell
There lives at least one being who can never change - one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness - who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles, who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.
-Charles Dickens
We want to reach not from untruth to truth, but from truth to higher truth.
-Swami Vivekananda
I care about your happiness just as you care about mine. I could not be at peace if you were not.
-Khalil Gibran
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo