That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
Blaise Pascal

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
John Keats

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
Lord Byron

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Soren Kierkegaard

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Soren Kierkegaard

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
Oprah Winfrey

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
Oprah Winfrey

How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races?
Steve Prefontaine

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
Margaret Mead

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe