The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

Jon Meacham

We have inherited the past; we can create the future.

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We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.

Paulo Coelho

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Henry James

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

Steven Wright

'Immortals' is all action. I love action movies. That's really where I want to spearhead my career.

Kellan Lutz

My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Mark Twain

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

Alan Shepard

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

Annie Leibovitz

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Umberto Eco

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Karl Marx