Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.

The 2004 presidential election will be a matter of life or death for the whole nation. We are sick today, and we will be even sicker tomorrow if this wretched half-bright swine of a president gets re-elected in November.

Hunter S. Thompson

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

Eric Hoffer

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Frances Willard

Education and science is an anathema for all religion.

Stefan Vucak

Men are in the habit, when the truth is exhibited by the servants of God, of saying, All is mystery; they have spoken in parables, and, therefore, are not to be understood. It is true they have eyes to see, and see not, but none are so blind as those who will not see.

Joseph Smith Jr.

The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty.

Mark Vonnegut

Justin, honey, you were my very first kiss. My very first hand to hold. But you were nothing more than an average guy. And I don't say that to be mean- I don't. There was just something about you that made me need to be your girlfriend to this day I don't know exactly what that was. But it was there.. and it was amazingly strong. -Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.Culpam poena premit comes

Horace

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

Oscar Wilde

Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends.

Francis Quarles

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aurelius

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

Anne Lamott