They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

George Bernard Shaw

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.

Johnny Hart

My faith is big enough to accept all of God's wonders.

Kirsten Miller

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

John Stossel

We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

Arianna Huffington

To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to create life out of life.

James Joyce

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

Steve Guttenberg

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

Andrew Cuomo

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Rudyard Kipling

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will.

Thomas Merton