I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation [and] is but a reflection of human frailty.

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

Sally Ride

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

Eric Sevareid

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

James Madison

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

Andrew Shue

Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record, or state legislature record, or current program, that could possibly justify his claim to the presidency one gets ... what? Not much. Similarly lightweight unqualified 'white' candidates have overcome this objection, to be sure, but what kind of standard is that?

Christopher Hitchens

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

William Hazlitt

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

Mae West

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is still escaping out of all analysis. It is not yet possessed, it cannot be handled. It instantly deserts possession, and flies to an object in the horizon. If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?

Jean Claude Van Damme

Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died.

William Butler Yeats

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.

Dawson Trotman