America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

Sean Connery

As palace mirror'd in the stream, as vapour mingled with the skies, So weaves the brain of mortal man the tangled web of Truth and Lies.

Richard Francis Burton

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

Kate Smith

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

Charles Dickens

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Ron Paul

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

Parker J. Palmer

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. -

Abraham Lincoln

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Plato

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Bertrand Russell

I could prove God statistically.

George Gallup

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

Bertrand Russell

Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?

Takehiko Inoue