People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.

Ambrose Bierce

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

Kinky Friedman

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm confident - confident in my skin, and I'm cool with my flaws and all that stuff.

Minka Kelly

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

Samuel G. Goodrich

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

William Mcgovern

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

George Tenet

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character, Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.

Orison Swett Marden

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Dean Inge

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

Mike Tyson

A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God - to create like our Divine Master.

Paul Gauguin

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Alan Moore