Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Ambrose Bierce

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

John Mellencamp

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

Oscar Wilde

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Samuel Vauclain

I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them.

Evander Holyfield

Truth is no road to fortune

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

Lewis Mumford

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Thomas Hobbes

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Gaulle

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

Lisa See

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

Jon Meacham

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

Ramakrishna