It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

William Westmoreland

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

C. S. Lewis

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics

Plato

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

Wayne Dyer

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

Henry Miller

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

W. H. Auden

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein, On relativity

My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights.

Ronald Reagan

It is only the minority of people who seek self-improvement or personal growth. This is because whatever one's self-criticisms, one secretly really believes that one's way of being is okay and probably the only correct one. They are alright as they are, and all problems are caused by other people's selfishness, unfairness, and by the external world.

David R. Hawkins

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Virginia Woolf