Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.

...it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds...

Samuel Adams

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.

Philip James Bailey

I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.

Dustin Diamond

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

Lewis Thomas

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

Sun Tzu

I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.'

Genie Francis

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Cato The Elder

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King Jr.

A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting