I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

Jonathan Sacks

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Puzant Kevork Thomajan

If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem.

Stephen Richards

The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.

Blaise Pascal

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

Betty Dodson

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Jose Saramago

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Gloria Swanson

This great maxim of Philosophy he had gathered by the teaching of nature alone: That man was created to work, not to speculate, or feel, or dream.

Thomas Carlyle

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Bob Grinde

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher