Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.

Peter Shilton

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

George W. Bush

Religion is not provided to us by revelation, it doesn't come from the heavens, it doesn't come from the beyond, it doesn't come from the divine. It's man-made. And it shows. It shows very well - that religion is created, invented, imposed by a species half a chromosome away from the chimpanzee.

Christopher Hitchens

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

Thomas Jefferson

Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.

Charles Baudelaire

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

Kenny Loggins

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

Oscar Wilde

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

George Chapman

Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon our European soil and, as one of countless human beings, I can

Stefan Zweig, Die Welt von Geste

I'm into mellow dates with really good food.

Lauren Conrad

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Anita Brookner

Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.

Dan Millman