To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true

Bertrand Russell

In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.

William Wordsworth

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

Henry Ford

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

Ron Wyden

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

John Gay

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal

I once feared death. It is said that death begins with the absence of life. And life begins when death is no longer feared. I have stared death in the eye and survived.

Cheryl Kaye Tardif

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Bruce Lee

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

Andrea Dworkin

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve

Pope, Alexander

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

Peter King