In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

Christopher Hitchens

How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Trina Paulus

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

Clive Owen

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

Groucho Marx

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

Sandra Day O'Connor

In their figurative game of chess, Anthony Rawlings had Claire in check. Every move she made, he countered.

Aleatha Romig

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Charles Stanley

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.

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Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

All you need is love.

John Lennon

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.

Henry David Thoreau

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Thomas Jefferson