The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Lee Iacocca

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

Frederick Douglass

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Heraclitus

With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith.

Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas

All religions have been made by men.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

Roger Scruton

Contrary to what we usually believe . . . the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times--although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them.The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: T

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see.

Leni Riefenstahl

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.

Reinhold Niebuhr

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

Gary Bauer

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

Patrick Henry

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Harry S Truman