When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The message of love can never come into a human soul, and pass away from it unreceived, without leaving that spirit worse, with all its lowest characteristics strengthened, and all its best ones depressed, by the fact of rejection.

Alexander Maclaren

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.

Herschel Walker

It's not about the press. It's not about the notoriety or the celebrity status or anything like that. To me, it's all about driving the race car.

Greg Moore

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

Charles Evans Hughes

Learning to see the world as it truly is - saturated with the presence and love of God - should be the essence of Christian discipleship, or what many call spiritual formation.

Skye Jethani

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Francis Ford Coppola

In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

George Crabbe

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

English Proverb

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

Bertrand Russell