Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

Salman Rushdie

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

Hugh Hefner

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

Alfred Day Hershey

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Madame Swetchine

America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.

Claudia Pemberton

This was a vagrant of sixty-five, who was going to prison for playing the flute; or, in other words, for begging in the streets, and doing noting for his livelihood. In the next cell, was another man, who was going to the same prison for hawking tin saucepans without a licence; thereby doing something for his living, in defiance of the Stamp-office.

Charles Dickens

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

V. Raymond Edman

Black history is American history.

Morgan Freeman

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

Georg Brandes

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Maya Angelou

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

Emo Philips