Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Quentin Crisp

In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.

Jonathan Sacks

Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor's. The drive for equality of opportunity would also require the abolition of the family since different parents have unequal abilities; it would require the communal rearing of children. The State would have to nationalize all babies and raise them in State nurseries under 'equal' conditions. But even here conditions cannot be the same, because different State officials will themselves have different abilities and personalities. And equality can never be achieved because of necessary differences of location.

Murray N. Rothbard

I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

Lady Gaga

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Margaret Thatcher

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Ruth Benedict

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.

Confucius

If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.

Edward Gardner

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

Terry Pratchett

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

Senator Jesse Helms

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

Oscar Wilde

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

Colleen C. Barrett