No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Robert Browning

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

Charles Krauthammer

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

Clint Eastwood

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Henry Van Dyke

The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.

Kurt Vonnegut

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

George Will

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Eric Hoffer

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

Jesse Helms

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

Jacques Ellul

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

Neale Donald Walsch

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Henry David Thoreau

After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.

Scott Turow