Tom Shakespeare

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

Francis Bacon

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

George Fox

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

Hope is a social quality transmitted from individual to individual, from generation to generation

Charles Roycroft

Sin is behovely, but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.

Julian of Norwich

Attachment is the greatest fabricator of all illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Simone Weil

Of all commentaries upon the Scriptures, good examples are the best and liveliest.

John Donne

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Gore Vidal

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

André Gide

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable thing.

Stendhal