No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Laura Palmer

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Arthur Erickson

Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.

Harvey S. Firestone

But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.

Helen Simonson

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Moraji R. Desai

I do engineering, not religion.

Daniel J. Bernstein

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, Where is it?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

Michael Chabon

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Frederic Bastiat

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

Jennie Finch

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

Jeff Bridges

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

Dan Simmons