It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Abraham Lincoln

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Joseph Wood Krutch

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

Jena Malone

You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.

Geoff Davis

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Zig Ziglar

People will always choose more money over more sex.

Doug Coupland

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Christopher Morley

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

Arthur Machen

The more you believe, the more you doubt. The more you doubt, the more you ask questions. Knowing that questions left unanswered is the best proof for your belief.

Sandra Chami Kassis

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Lionel Trilling