Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

Tara Lipinski

God is a comic, playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

V. S. Naipaul

They say: In the long run truth will triumph; but it is untrue.

Anton Chekhov

With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.

Eckhart Tolle

I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.

Tom Perrotta

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

Philip Pullman

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Abraham Lincoln

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Martin Luther

I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.

Paul William "Bear" Bryant

Italy will always have the best food.

Diane von Furstenberg

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

Michael Zaslow