Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry Adams

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

Michael Shermer

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Ephesians 4:26

Bible

And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

Henry David Thoreau, Excursions,

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

Adriana Trigiani

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Francis Bacon

I rejected Christianity because I determined that it was, to be blunt, idiotic. I rejected Objectivism and Austrianism, in contrast, as mixtures of deep truths and unfortunate mistakes.

Bryan Caplan

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

Tim Tebow

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Mark Twain