When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

General Robert E. Lee

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

Elie Wiesel

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Pearl Buck

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The God we've been praying to is deaf to our words and only responds to our actions.

Steve Maraboli

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

Jaron Lanier

Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

Pantanjali

Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.

ASAP Rocky

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Johann von Goethe

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

Nelson Mandela

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

Bill Kristol