The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

George Michael

Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Eric Hoffer

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

Penelope Fitzgerald

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

Paul Ryan

My nightmares are mostly about losing you. Then I wake up to find you're still with me.

Suzanne Collins

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Jean de la Bruyere

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Swami Vivekananda

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Richard Powers

I learnt that men were moved by a savage egoism, that love was only the dirty trick nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.

Richard Perle

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles