We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

If she America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

Carl Sandburg

No one disputes that seeming order can out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

Robert J. Sawyer

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

Bram Stoker

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Excessive dress prevents the body from moving freely. Excessive wealth interferes with the movements of our soul.

Leo Tolstoy

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Joyce Carol Oates

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

Walter Ulbricht

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Henry Fielding

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

Steve Albini

Novels are longer than life.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Samuel Insull

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

Lysander Spooner