There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

George Eliot

fire is beautifuland we know that if we gettoo close it will kill usbut what does that matterit is better to be happy for a momentand be burned up with beautythan to live a long timeand be bored all the while

Don Marquis

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Woodrow Wilson

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

Johnson

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

Mikhail Gorbachev

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

Christopher Hitchens

They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments.... They will do it, then they will send their minds out to seek the truth.

Sheri S. Tepper

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

Michael Badnarik