Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.

Christopher Hitchens

When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.

Kathryn Stockett

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

Theodore White

Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you -- and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.

Abdul'-Baha

My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.

Ellen Pompeo

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Leo Tolstoy

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

Graham Coxon

In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

I start where the last man left off.

Thomas Alva Edison

We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of the element air, which by unquestioned experiments is known to have weight.

Evangelista Torricelli

You can love someone and not like spending time with them.

Will Fetters

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and