We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Robert Frost

I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment for reflection or for the discharge of any other then the most immediate and pressing concerns.

Edward Rutledge

Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.

Blaise Pascal

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

John Lothrop Motley

Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.

Evan Meekins

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Sir Walter Scott

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

Loretta Devine

He would come in and say he changed his mind which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.

Mark Twain

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Carl Sagan

My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.

Kahlil Gibran

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

Blaise Pascal

Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

Irving Batcheller