I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

Absolutely faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Eric Hoffer

“The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.”

William Hutton

“We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, Why did this happen to me? unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.”

Unknown author