But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

M Scott Peck

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Ralph W. Sockman

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Oscar Wilde

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Robert Francis Kennedy

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Martin Luther

Never memorize something that you can look up.

Albert Einstein

That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.

John Madden

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

Gary Cole

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

James A. Baldwin

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Charles Caleb Colton

Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.

Philip Roth

I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.

Rachel McAdams