If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

Diahann Carroll

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Maya Angelou

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

Brigitte Bardot

The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

Fanny Crosby

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

Robert A. Heinlein, Job: A Comed

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

Sam Brownback

There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; and keepin' your face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day for fear people shouldna think you civil enough.

George Eliot

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

Spike Milligan

A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Grace Murray Hopper

If the followers of the Oversoul are kept blind, if they can't judge the Oversoul's purpose for themselves, then they aren't freely choosing between good and evil, or between wise and foolish, but are only choosing to subsume themselves in the purposes of the Oversoul How can the Oversoul's plans be well-served, if all its followers are the kind of weak-souled people who are willing to obey the Oversoul without understanding? I will serve you, Oversoul, with my whole heart I'll serve you, if I understand what you're trying to do, what it means. And if your purpose is a good one... I will not be tamed, only persuaded. I will not be coerced or led blindly or tricked or bullied -- I am willing only to be convinced. If you don't trust your own basic goodness enough to tell me what you're trying to do, Oversoul, then you're confessing your own moral weakness and I'll never serve you.

Orson Scott Card

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.

Lord Nelson