I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one

Oscar Wilde

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Stephen Jay Gould

Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.

C.S. Lewis

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

Mary Wesley

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.

Northrop Frye

Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!

Jane Austen

I don't think you need religion.

Terry Jones

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Helen Rowland

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Ben Stein

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

Lord Chesterfield

...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination.

Patti Smith

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

Bob Hope