Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires.

H. Stanley Judd

Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Jose Marti

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Ben Goldacre

The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Rumi

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.

Edmond About

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

Haile Gebrselassie

They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.

Willie Aames

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Rose Kennedy

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

Charles Vest

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Malcolm Muggeridge

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

Anthony Swofford