The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

Lou Brock, "Christian Science Mo

Is it not by learning to read the book of nature with the eyes of faith that we come to recognize the drop of divinity that resides in our own souls though hidden, master? In the end is this not faith; to seek the light that takes us further, the light of Christ that brings that to which reason and knowledge alone can never raise itself? This is truth!

Adriana Koulias

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

If you don't understand how somethingworks, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don'tknow how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understandhow memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesisa bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't goto work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God.

Richard Dawkins

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Tom G. Palmer

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

Stephen King

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

Mason Cooley

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

Vincent McNabb, God's Way of Mer

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

Mehmet Oz

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

Eliot Spitzer

For is not a Symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the God-like?

Thomas Carlyle