I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Christy Turlington

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Wallace Stevens

Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?

Jane Austen

A sad man, is man with the lights turned off.

Arsenie Boca

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Franz Kafka

The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

June Jordan

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.

James Dobson

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.

John Polkinghorne

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Martin Sheen

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

Jennifer Aniston

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

Martin Amis

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

James Lovelock