Painting reflects. It kills you in a colourful shower of emptiness. Flatness. Randomness. And beauty. Yes, it is the most pure beauty I have ever felt in my life.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny democracy, not dictatorship the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Tony Blair

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

Stephen King

Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask What the hell is wrong with the projector? and go up to the control room, you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time.

Colin Wilson

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.

George Santayana

Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.

Paul Tillich

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Mark Twain

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.

Ray Comfort

Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.

Scott Nearing

Democracy passes into despotism.

Plato

For is not a Symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the God-like?

Thomas Carlyle

There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded.

Robert B. Fleming

Though it may be interesting to know how many hairs there are on the human head, or how the giant red spot on the surface of Jupiter was formed, the real truths we are interested in are those about ourselves.

Stephen Richards