I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.(Gore Vidal writing about the critic Edmund Wilson)

Gore Vidal, New York Review of B

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Alan Watts

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

Source Unknown

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

Bob Balaban

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Samuel Butler

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

J. B. Priestley

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Joyce Cary

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

Samuel Johnson

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Abraham Lincoln

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

Steve Jobs

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.

Morihei Ueshiba