The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

William Shakespeare

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Woodrow Wilson

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

Fred Brooks

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

The subject of philosophy is very ancient. The word means: The love, study or pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes, whether theoretical or practical. All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.

L. Ron Hubbard

I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was . I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the food, only to find that I couldn't do it justice, because my stomach had shrunk. And as a foreign tourist in North Korea, under the care of vigilant minders who wanted me to see only the best, I had enjoyed the finest fare available.

Christopher Hitchens

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.

Sugar Ray Leonard

It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.

Emile Durkheim

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

Louis Kronenberger

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

Plato

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron