America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Robert E. Speer

But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.

Theodor Herzl

People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true

Bertrand Russell

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

Michael Pollan

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.

Marguerite Duras

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

Michael Polanyi

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up

Barack Obama

I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.

Diablo Cody

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Judd Nelson

My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying My mother, drunk or sober.

G. K. Chesterton

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Elvis Presley