The song within your heart could never rise Until love bade it spread its wings and soar.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

Stanley Hauerwas

Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Oswald Chambers

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Thomas Hardy

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Henry David Thoreau

Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living nature and who do not comprehend it from the standpoint of natural science. And it seems to me that we have more than enough mysticism as it is.

Wilhelm Reich

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.

Jean Lush

I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.

Ron Kind

If something can go wrong it will.

(Edward A. Murphy Murphy's Law

We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.

Robert Bianco

Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.

Preet Bharara

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

David Mitchell