Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Soren Kierkegaard

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.

David Mamet

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

Voltaire

The universe is full of magical things to be manifested with Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

Elizabeth Gaskell

You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

C.S. Lewis

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Charlie Chaplin

Well, you know when you're rocking in a rocking chair, and you go so far that you almost fall over backwards, but at the last instant you catch yourself? That's how I feel all the time.

Steven Wright

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

Mike Conaway

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

Paul Ryan