Frederick Douglass:
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

George Eliot:
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

Georges Bernanos:
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much,
and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.