Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

Terry Pratchett

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

Huston Smith

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Jesse Ventura

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

Tim Cahill

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Henry David Thoreau

God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.

Paracelsus

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Kin Hubbard

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.

Lord Chesterfield

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

Rudolf Arnheim

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Blaise Pascal