While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Jean Paul Richter

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

Niels Bohr

The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;

Chinese Proverb

The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

Terry Pratchett

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

Alanis Morissette

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

John Kenneth Galbraith

If we're struggling with trust issues, it means we made a poor hiring decision. We have no desire to be babysitters during the day.

Chris Hoffman

I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.

Lawrence Kasdan

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Barbara Kingsolver