He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.

Michael Phelps

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

Paul Harvey

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

Anna Quindlen

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

Simon Cowell

You cannot go ahead while you are getting even.

Dick Armey

Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.

Nicholas Sparks

Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.

Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

Carson McCullers

Do notforget duty. But choose love when you can.

Cinda Williams Chima

I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.

Courteney Cox

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Andrew Carnegie

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

William Faulkner