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Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing of the past. They are proclaiming now their contempt for Christ's character, and their disgust at the very name of love. Scorn and hatred, difference and division, must be more than ever our lot, if we would be the followers of Christ in these days. Conventional religion and polite unbelief are gone forever.

- John Neville Figgis

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.

- Charles Caleb Colton

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

- William Tyler

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

- Geri Weitzman

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood ... but everyone has something to give.

- Barbara Pierce Bush

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.

- Adlai Ewing Stevenson

People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat.

- Paul Palmer

The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

- Robert Grudin

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

- Al Bernstein

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

- Russell Baker