Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

James Madison

That one moment that starts it all. The moment that gives light to the rest of your life. You're not going to realize it but, that's the beauty of it. You won't know it until you've reached the state of grace, when everything is aligned and you realize that despite your rough year the world is still spinning and taking you with it. And, no matter what happens, everything will be okay. You will always have people who love you, since before, now, and after.

A.A. Byer

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles de Gaulle

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

Tony Campolo

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Jorge Luis Borges

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

James Thurber

I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.

Adam Carolla

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

Natalie Portman

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Mark Twain

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

Billy Joel

Funny is funny is funny.

Bob Newhart

Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.

Arabic Proverb