God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Jewish Proverb on mother
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Spanish Proverb on mother
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. Pythagoras on goodness
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. Pythagoras on life
It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families. Pythagoras on war
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest. Quarles on ambition
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. Quarles on danger
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. J. Danforth Quayle on success
Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we’re selling this deadly stuff anyway? Anna Quindlen on addiction
I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer. Dan Quisenberry on time
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson on change
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you? Quran on adversity
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey’s fits and starts, rehearses life’s own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things. Jonathan Raban on journey
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I?And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel on inspiration
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. Rabelais on health
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it. Rabelais on war
Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all. Walter Raleigh on beauty
You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. Ramakrishna on religion
He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again. James Ray on war