Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

John Updike

Tenderness is a virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

George Bernard Shaw

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Desmond Tutu

With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars.

Michael Symon

I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.

Mickey Rooney

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Havelock Ellis

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

P. J. O'Rourke

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

Mark Twain

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

Charisma Carpenter

Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker