They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me-then they will have my dead body, not my obedience.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Rita Mae Brown

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

Jewel

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Thomas Carlyle

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

Joe Biden

My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.

Kerri Walsh

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truthand listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

Patrick Henry

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

Emily Post

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Michel de Montaigne

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

Lord Kelvin