Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.

The question isn't 'who is going to let me'; it's 'who is going to stop me'.

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Samuel Johnson

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

David Cameron

I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

Nathan Fillion

Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Marquis de Sade

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Joan Borysenko

Millions of people would have mindlessly starved to death if his advice had been followed.

Christopher Hitchens

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Bruce Barton

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

Meryl Streep

She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.

John Green

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Saint Augustine of Hippo