The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

C.S. Lewis

Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.

Ron Wyden

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Jesse Owens

I declare that I will establish peace in this world.

Prem Rawat

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

Ignatius Loyola

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

John Locke

Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, Faith and Love. Prayer is sublime.

Albert Pike

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

Larry Bird

The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.

Sylvia Plath

My wife needs her freedom just like me.

Clive Owen

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

Harry Browne

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Lyndon B. Johnson