All progress occurs because people dare to be different.

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.

Vicente Fox

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years.

Carl Sagan

Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no proof my body exists would be arty and specious and if my mind is more ephemeral, less provable, the solution of being a writer with solid (touchable, tearable, burnable) books is as close as anyone has come to a perfect answer.

Judith Rossner

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

Kevyn Aucoin

The President to-night has a dream: He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: He is a very common-looking man. The President replied: The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

Antoine Rivarol

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Baldwin

The sight of such aching beauty would infuse his soul with pain.

Tabitha Suzuma

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

Roberta Williams

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

Helen Gahagan

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

Friedrich A. Hayek