Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

I have long felt that there was a general impression in the non-scientific world, that the scientific world believes Science has discovered ways of explaining all the facts of Nature without adopting any definite belief in a Creator. I have never doubted that that impression was utterly groundless.

William Thomson

It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.

Gary Bauer

Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.

William J. Harris

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Yogi Desai

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

Ang Lee

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

Jim Wallis

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

Anon.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

Clive Bell

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

Minoru Yamasaki

When they searched my car, they said that they found a gasoline canister and I think duct tape. Who wouldn't have a gasoline canister on them when driving 3,000 miles across country?

Sherman Austin

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Elias Canetti