"There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why." ― William Barclay Topic(s): Great More From William Barclay "The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way." "Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are." More In Great "When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – ‘I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,’ and so forth, I switch off quite early."― Christopher Hitchens "And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don’t play that… My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground."― Mark Wahlberg "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."― Demosthenes