Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Salvation is more than a word, It is His Word. His word became flesh so we have the opportunity to live.

Tabitha Robin

The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of room in there for them to bounce around and do damage.

Terry Pratchett

Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung.

Christopher Hitchens

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

William Shakespeare

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

Samuel Johnson, Rambler #2, Marc

What struck me, in reading the reports from Sri Lanka, was the mild disgrace of belonging to our imperfectly evolved species in the first place. People who had just seen their neighbors swept away would tell the reporters that they knew a judgment had been coming, because the Christians had used alcohol and meat at Christmas or because ... well, yet again you can fill in the blanks for yourself. It was interesting, though, to notice that the Buddhists were often the worst. Contentedly patting an image of the chubby lord on her fencepost, a woman told the that those who were not similarly protected had been erased, while her house was still standing. There were enough such comments, almost identically phrased, to make it seem certain that the Buddhist authorities had been promulgating this consoling and insane and nasty view. That would not surprise me.

Christopher Hitchens

The man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man; neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for a man

Bertrand Russell

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Francis Quarles

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

Magnus Carlsen

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

C.S. Lewis

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

Floyd Abrams

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Charles Simmons