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Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart. ~Joseph Fort Newton

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

If peace be in the heart the wildest winter storm is full of solemn beauty.

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.” Aristotle

Remember, you are the only one who can keep you from becoming the person God wants you to be.

Neil Anderson

God is with you. He’ll never leave you. You aren’t alone. Because Jesus Christ is the only way home!

“He who waits on God never waits too long.”

Chuck Wagner

Lots of people want to ride with you in the Limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the Limo breaks down.

What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God

We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes; we count on God’s love for our present needs; but we count on God’s sovereignty for the future.

Opportunities are like sunrises –  if you wait too long, you miss them.

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in.

“Change before you have to.”

A stiff apology is a second insult.

G. K. Chesterton

“Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.” Ovid

“I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans.” George MacDonald

“Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may – wealth or self, pleasure or renown.” Martin Luther

“The private enterprise system indicates that some people have higher incomes than others.”

Gerry Brown

“Except for his car, he’s the only man on the track.”

Murray Walker, Sportcaster

“It is thought that Raj Mohammed Poselay was beaten to death, possibly during a family fun day in the park.”

Newspaper, Wolverton Express & Star (UK)

“Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.”

Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

“I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.”

Joseph P. Kennedy, 1936

“We’d like to avoid problems, because when we have problems, we can have troubles.”

Wesley Bolin, Governor

“If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there’ll be a record.”

Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

“That’s so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes.”

Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left winger, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker

“I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”

John Wayne, Actor

“That’s inches away from being millimetre perfect.”

Ted Lowe

“They are not jackbooted Nazi thugs. They are merely German policemen in spiffy uniforms here to help us.”

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I’m keeping a chart.

Hillary Clinton

I don’t diet. I just don’t eat as much as I’d like to.”

Linda Evangelista, Supermodel

“That’s just the tip of the ice cube.”

Neil Hamilton, BBC2

“I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.”

Stuart Pearce

Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction…

Pierre Pachet, 1872

“If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.”

Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver.

Carol Malia

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

Tanith Lee