Conformity the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Adlai Stevenson

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

P. J. O'Rourke

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

Jim Harrison

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Leo Buscaglia

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

Barack Obama

Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?

Jason Reitman

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

Ron Paul