Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

Stockwell Day

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Thomas Jefferson

I have a family.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

John Berger

It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

Sting

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Viola Spolin

Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Anne Lamott

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Friedrich von Schiller

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

Ray Bradbury