He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to many people that you actually had to kill them before they saw the error of their ways...

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Fletcher Knebel

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?

Madeline Claire Franklin

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Dirk Kempthorne

Leave the atom alone.

E. Y. Harburg

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

Ralph Waldo Emerson

On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.

Josh McDowell

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Max Beckmann

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

Sam Rayburn

What is true is true, and what is false is false...

Emanuel Swedenborg

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'

Miranda Lambert

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

Marc Andreessen