Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

Eric Hoffer

Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.

Jodi Picoult

Trying is the internalization of the failure of omnipotence.

Brian O'Shaugnessy

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

Tom Robbins

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

Lech Walesa

It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors.

Peter Mere Latham

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.

Hannah Arendt

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

David Bowie

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Henry David Thoreau

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Walter Lippmann

Loving God with all our mind means that

John Piper