Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.

Samuel Johnson

Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

Bill Owens

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Steven Wright

It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Mark Twain

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Hannah Arendt

On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

Eric Burdon

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

Maurice Sendak

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Johann von Goethe

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

Woodrow Wilson

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

Trisha Goddard