There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Linda Chavez

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Stephen King

Yeah, I am crazy. Ok. May be I am. But I prefer to be crazy than being a dummy.

Ravindra Shukla

We are made from Mother Earth and we go back to Mother Earth.

American Indian Proverb, Shenand

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

SunTzu

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

Siegfried Sassoon

My wife has to be the worst cook. In my house, we pray after we eat.

Rodney Dangerfield

Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.

Henning Mankell

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Barry Mann

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

Carly Fiorina

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Chinua Achebe

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Dalai Lama