This was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Alfred North Whitehead

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Claude M. Bristol

If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.

Jim DeMint

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

Ziggy Marley

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferociousdefence? One might have supposed him amply capable of lookingafter himself.

Richard Dawkins

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.

John Simon

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

Christian Bale

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

Anne Lamott

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

Joshua Lederberg

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.

Mark Twain