A shady business never yields a sunny life.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Miguel de Cervantes

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

William Barclay

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Martin Heidegger

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

Jeremy Rifkin

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

Fiona Shaw

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

Philip Zimbardo

In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.

Dirk Kempthorne

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Benjamin Franklin

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

Jean de la Bruyere

The world is full of human lobsters; men stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

Orison Swett Marden

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect you have enough . . .

Gail Sheehy

It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.

Adam Derek Scott