There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Frederick Douglass

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

Mark Twain

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm

George Eliot

Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.

Proverb

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Khalil Gibran

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.

Vince Gill

Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

Ambrose Bierce

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Gerald F. Lieberman

A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves.

Terry Pratchett

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

Michael Caine

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Abbas Kiarostami