I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open your field is the entire human condition.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Theodore Roosevelt

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Bill Gates, Time Magazine, Janua

True readers... are ready to go through a whole volume, if there be but hope of finding in it a single genuine thought or the mere suggestion even of a truth which has some fresh application to life.

John Lancaster Spalding

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.

John Powell

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

Allanah Myles

Are you seeking to be offended?

Asa Don Brown

I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.

Donald Sutherland

The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you...and protect me, for today I could betray you.

Augustine of Hippo

You die in the middle of your life.

John Green

This inhuman place makes human monsters.

Stephen King

We are angrier with the sky than with our actions.

Sorin Cerin