Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

The idea of revelation is the idea of special knowledge of God, or of religious truth, possessed by some people and transmitted by them to others. In some form or other the idea is reasonable. In all other matters people differ in their degree of skill or insight. Why not in religion?

Charles Hartshorne

Physically plain people are perfectly able to see physical beauty in others, while people who are morally maimed are blind to goodness and decency. They honestly think it doesn't exist. Oh, they know it exists all right. They just never know which people have it.

Orson Scott Card

You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.

Edward Burns

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Olympia Brown

Wine is a mocker, and strong drink is raging; and who is deceived by it is not wise.

Bible

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

James Madison

I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.

Mindy Kaling

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

Stanley Clarke

Joy comes from using your potential.

Will Schultz

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Lydia Maria Child