For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Bernard Avishai

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

George Santayana, The Letters of

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

Rosa Luxemburg

I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!

Wesley Snipes

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Og Mandino

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Sinclair Lewis

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

Ednita Nazario

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

Martin Luther

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

Sister Corita Kent

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

Richard MacDonald

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul.

Joseph Ernst Renan