It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.

Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.

Thomas Frank

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Thomas S. Monson

I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths.... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.

Muhammad Ali

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

Blaise Pascal

For true love is inexhaustible the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand, 19

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. On why he gave up medicine

Michael Crichton

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

Bill Cosby

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

Marjorie Holmes

Beauty can come in strange forms.

James Dyson

The principal part of faith is patience.

George MacDonald