The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Steve Leonard

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.

George Orwell

But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it.

Marilynne Robinson

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

Edgar Quinet

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Thornton Wilder

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Evenus

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

James A. Baldwin

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

Angelina Grimke

My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

Wernher Von Braun

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

Edgar Quinet

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

Imelda Marcos