There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

Gary Ross

When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

Ben Barnes

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Tom Lehrer

There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.

Alain de Botton

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Gloria Steinem

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

Patricia Hewitt

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare

Lewis Morris

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

Marilyn vos Savant

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Jean Genet

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Simone Weil

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Christian Nevell Bovee