The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life--hence it is a valuable possession to him.

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

Julien Smith

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

Rick Springfield

Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

Jeff Goodell

If we're happy, to be happy together. If we're are sad, to be sad together. To always know the other is there for us. The best of friends... and so much more.

Kasey Michaels

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.

Soren Kierkegaard

But Susan's thoughts were far removed from the political implications of Digital Fortress. She was still struggling to comprehend its existence. She'd spent her life breaking codes, firmly denying the existence of the ultimate code. She felt like an atheist coming face to face with God.

Dan Brown

With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

Ian MacKaye

Excessive dress prevents the body from moving freely. Excessive wealth interferes with the movements of our soul.

Leo Tolstoy

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

Florence Welch

I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

Ellie Goulding

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

Nikita Khrushchev