Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.

When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.

Betty Ford

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Fa

The greatest help oft comes in harm's disguise, to those with trusting hearts and open eyes.

William D. Burt

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.

John Boehner

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Sir Walter Scott

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Ansel Adams

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Let us save the to-morrows for work

Mark Twain

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.

J.G. Ballard

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

Charles Dickens, Life And Advent

I can't tell someone that their dreams are impossible.

Paulo Coelho

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Anthony Hope