Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

I would love to be like a Brian McKnight. Shoot, I'd love to be Brian McKnight.

Justin Guarini

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Miguel de Cervantes

The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.

Adlai Stevenson

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

Dag Hammarskjold

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

Carter G. Woodson

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

Dave Davies

Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.

John Lancaster Spalding

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

Robert Lanza

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.

Kathy Freston