In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

LeBron James

Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Charles de Lint

Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of mansions as an inducement to follow him. Is it not further true that all religions down the ages have shown a keen interest in the amassment of material goods in the real world?

Christopher Hitchens

Necessity has no law.

Oliver Cromwell

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

Patricia Ireland

When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

Tammy Bruce

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

Nigel Farage

High-quality food is better for your health.

Michael Pollan

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Helen Rowland

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

Roger Mudd

If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.

William Bradford Shockley

My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.

Emily Deschanel