God is a slick god. Temple Knows. She knows because of all the crackerjack miracles still to be seen on this ruined globe.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Francis of Assisi

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

Source Unknown

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

Bill Condon

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

Studs Terkel

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

Blaise Pascal

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Saint Francis de Sales

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

Vin Diesel

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Alfred North Whitehead

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

Tim Berners-Lee

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Charles Caleb Colton