But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

Whensoever hostile aggressions...require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.

Thomas Jefferson

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

Jeffrey Eugenides

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

William Least Heat Moon

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

Maggie Kuhn

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

Samantha Morton

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

Whittaker Chambers

It is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.

Schillerbuch

But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.

Michael Hutchence

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

Daniel Johns

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Johann von Goethe

Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.

James T. Mccay

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John C. Lilly