I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.

Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

Hannah Whitall Smith

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Naguib Mahfouz

Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about character issues. Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.

P. J. O'Rourke

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

John Mellencamp

You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

Osho

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Mahatma Gandhi

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

Stephen Leacock

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maxwell Maltz

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science

Albert Einstein

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

Mireille Enos

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Florence King

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

Ashley Tisdale