People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

Those who invoke Secular tyranny in contrast to religion are hoping that we will forget two things: the connection between the Christian churches and fascism, and the capitulation of the churches to National Socialism.

Christopher Hitchens

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

Michael Berryman

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

Barack Obama

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

Sarah Palin

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

Paul McCartney

There is no mystery attached to the fact that, in this new era in human history, when for the first time large numbers of people can live unconstrained lives involving high levels of choice, there is a concurrent explosion in depression rates. The burden of responsibility for making innumerable choices can result in a person's becoming psychologically tyrannized by them.

Gregg D. Jacobs, The Ancestral M

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Diane Arbus

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Niccolo Machiavelli

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

Martin Feldstein

Getting stuck is reactive, getting unstuck is proactive.

Sherene McHenry

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Oscar Wilde

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Gustave Flaubert