I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

...who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

Neil Gaiman

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Mary Baker Eddy

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winston Churchill

Human beings have used their incredible abilities to develop a staggering array of limiting beliefs, justifications and excuses for every occasion. What a waste!

Robert White

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Robert Redford

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.

Jeff Foxworthy

-Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.-Take care, Lizzy; that speech savours strongly of disappointment.

Jane Austen

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Ernest Dimnet

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.

Sue Johanson

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

Tom Robbins

I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case. One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

Orson Scott Card