What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

Catherine the Great

I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.

Vera Farmiga

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

Oscar Wilde

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Source Unknown

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Oscar Wilde

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

Marilyn Manson

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Larry King

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Honore de Balzac

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

Mike Krzyzewski

To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong.

Hulk Hogan

The true greatness of a nation is not measured by the vastness of its territory, or by the multitude of its people, or by the profusion of its exports and imports; but by the extent to which it has contributed to the life and thought and progress of the world. A man's greatness is not estimated by the size of his body or of his purse; not by his family connections or social position, however high these may be. He may bulk large in public estimation today, but tomorrow he will be forgotten like a dream, and his very servants may secure a higher position and a name lasting possibly a little longer.A man's greatness is estimated by his influence, not over the votes and empty cheers of a changing and passing crowd, but by his abiding, inspiring influence in their bidden thoughts, upon their ways of thinking, and consequently of acting. That is why the Wycliffes, Shakespeares, Miltons, Newtons, Wesleys, and Gladstones of English history live, and will live, in everlasting memory, while lesser men are remembered only through them, and the crowd of demagogues, pretenders, and self-seekers are named, if ever named, only to point a moral, or adorn a tale.So with nations. A great nation is not one which, like Russia, has an enormous territory ; or, like China, has an enormous population. It is the nation which gives mankind new modes of thought, new ideals of life, new hopes, new aspirations; which lifts the world out of the rut, and sets it going on a cleaner and brighter road.

L. E. Blaze, Lecture at the D. B