We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alan Alda

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

A. N. Wilson

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

Sun Tzu

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

John Romero

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

Kenichi Fukui

The author should be in his work like God is in the universe--present everywhere and visible nowhere.L'auteur dans son oeuvre doit etre comme Dieu dans l'univers, present partout et visible nulle part.

Gustave Flaubert

My brothers and my sisters, do always persevere in true and earnest prayer, and the Lord will hear you. Believe that the highest revelations of science are conformable to the doctrine of the efficacy of prayer; that in this doctrine the highest philosophy harmonizes with the purest devotion.

Keshub Chunder Sen

Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Plato

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

Joan Allen

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

Thomas Jefferson, (letter to Mrs