People who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.

You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.

Orson Scott Card

When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind.

Johannes Kepler

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Al Boliska

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus

I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

Nancy Pelosi

You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.

Eric Liu

Second place is just the first place loser.

Dale Earnhardt

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

Thomas More

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Vladimir Lenin

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

Matthew Fox

A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Tom Stoppard