Muriel Spark Quote

To be a leader, take action and be an example. To be an adviser, be wise.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.

And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and...

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everyb...

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of info...

Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living.

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...