His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

I think people are sick and tired of all the abuse songs, and drug addiction, we want to bring to world a big fat smile.

Steve Brown

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Norman Cousins

Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason and observation, it ought to be possible to discover these principles. These were the crucial ideas that explain why science arose in Christian Europe and no where else.

Rodney Stark

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Henri Matisse, Notebooks

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it -- and sometimes three.

Alexander Dumas

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Ben Hecht

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Mark Twain

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

John Leonard

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard E. Byrd

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

John Kenneth Galbraith

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

Alexis Ohanian