The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

Arlen Specter

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

Hilaire Belloc

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Charles de Gaulle

What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte -- there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.

Proverb

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

Jodi Picoult

When we are judging everything, we are learning nothing.

Steve Maraboli

Who tells the truth needs no fancy phrases.

Isaac Leib Peretz

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

Ernst Haas

Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.

Erich Fromm

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

Leo Tolstoy

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Mahatma Gandhi