Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

George Will

To make Cosmic Ordering work you have to start using it.

Stephen Richards

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

Mark Twain

The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

Washington Irving, The SketchBoo

Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!

Jane Siberry

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Samuel Johnson

Feeling fat lasts nine months but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.

Nikki Dalton

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Winston Churchill

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

Waylon Jennings

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt; And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy