The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

Dwight L. Moody

All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

Albert Brooks

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The universe never did make sense. I suspect that it was built on a government contract.

Robert A. Heinlein

We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree.

Hillary Clinton

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

James Rogers

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism

Henry Louis Mencken

We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.

Rick Larsen

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Hosea Ballou

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.

Virginia Woolf

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

Rachel Carson