I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

Craig Ferguson

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Joel Osteen

I firmly believe that there was an ancient language, the language of the melodies that make us all be understood. The melody of ancient times must resound in our souls so that we may have a human life. The ancient melody, the so many times forgotten melody, the melody of love.

Jozsef Szombatfalvi

Take life seriously but none of the people in it.

Kurt Vonnegut

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Alistair Cooke

The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click--you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Alexandra Ardonetto

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

Henry David Thoreau

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

William Shakespeare

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

Hubert H. Humphrey