I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

George Bernard Shaw

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

Ernest Hemingway

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

Kurt Vonnegut

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

Georges Bernanos

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

Thomas Jefferson

Whether it's a 16-year old girl, or a mom, or a guy, or anybody, as long as they come up and they're excited to meet me 'cause they've had some sort of relationship with something I've created, it's the coolest thing ever. It never gets old. It's awesome.

Andy Grammer

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

Francis Hutcheson

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Voltaire

There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They neither bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it, from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dori

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but its echo endures much longer.

Richard Paul Evans

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

Morris West