"God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible." — William Booth, English minister, born 1829
"You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet." — William Booth, English minister, born 1829
"We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown." — William Booth, English minister, born 1829
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." — Victor Borge, Danish-American comedian, born 1909
"Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year." — Victor Borge, Danish-American comedian, born 1909
"Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear of laughter from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government." — Victor Borge, Danish-American comedian, born 1909
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." — Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine poet, born 1899
"In general, every country has the language it deserves." — Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine poet, born 1899
"Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time." — Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine poet, born 1899
"When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." — Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine poet, born 1899
"Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and rain alone shall wear them away." — Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor, born 1867
"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion, or challenge the ideology of a violet." — Hal Borland, American author, born 1900