Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.

There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.

Pat Robertson

His hands may have been the one to heal you, but it will be mine that awaken you.

Charlotte Featherstone

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Blaise Pascal

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

David Korten

Strength was the virtue of paganism obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

David Hare

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

George Eliot, Middlemarch

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

Ryan White

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.

Christopher Marlowe

I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Mark Twain, Notebook (1884 entry

If you are born poor, it is not your mistake. But if you die poor it is your mistake.

Bill Gates