She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.

I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.

Henry David Thoreau

Today I will take the opportunity to do unanticipated good.

Steve Maraboli

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

Claude Bernard

Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.

Laura Swenson

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

John Baldacci

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

Jerry Garcia

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Ludwig Erhard

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

Diablo Cody

I was a Political Science major.

Harry Shearer

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

James H. Breasted

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

Epictetus

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

John Webster