A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others.

Blaise Pascal

I shed a tear today. Silenty, I felt it fall. You caught it, shared it, held it, felt it, then suddenly it wasn't so big after all.

Marge Tindall

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

Source Unknown

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Mickey Rooney

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies

Aristotle

Civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and the beauty of night back to the forests and the seas; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of the night? Do they fear the vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?

Henry Beston, The Outermost Hous

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Samuel Johnson

While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.

C.S. Lewis

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Ray Bradbury

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

Eddie Izzard