At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Heinrich Heine

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Helen Keller

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Edith Stein

I'm not a great poetry fan.

Rupert Everett

On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

Eddie Van Halen

For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Margaret Sanger

Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.

Meredith Duran

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

Hillary Clinton

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Richard Baxter

It's interesting when people make comments about celebrities' weight gain or lack of weight gain as if they're a medical professional that's treating that celebrity. Like, 'This doctor does not treat Jessica Simpson, but thinks her weight is unhealthy.' If you don't treat her, then how do you know?

Busy Philipps

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Albert Schweitzer