I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Gustave Flaubert

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

Ernest Istook

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.

Horace Bushnell

I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.

Ellie Goulding

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

Alphonsus Liguori

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

James Baldwin

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

Jena Malone

Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.

John Henry Holland

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

John Drinkwater

People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.

Ralph Waldo Emerson