Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Vance Havner

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Johann von Goethe

Education and science is an anathema for all religion.

Stefan Vucak

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

Tony Blair

The fact is, many people do not know how treat themselves and are experts at putting themselves down. In fact, if most of us were in a relationship with ourselves, we would break up with us, given how badly we treat ourselves.

Ramani Durvasula

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy. Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error: the pride and refuse of the universe.

Blaise Pascal, Pens

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

Leo Tolstoy

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

Liza Minnelli

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

Zora Neale Hurston

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

Erma Bombeck