My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.

Darnell Lamont Walker

We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.

Daryl Hannah

Basically, I'm a romantic.

Pia Zadora

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Barbara Jordan

Repetition builds continuity, Continuity builds history,History builds Identity.

Roshan Samtani

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.

Samuel Butler

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

William Robertson Smith

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do engineering, not religion.

Daniel J. Bernstein

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

Saint Patrick

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

Michel de Montaigne

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Irving Babbitt