The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

James Hansen

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

Sir William Temple

Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.

Steve Maraboli

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Albert Camus

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

Terry Pratchett

Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.

Victoria Gotti

The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.

Gerda Lerner

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Billy Joel

They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.on the eversores (translation: Overturners) who bedeviled new students at Cartage in the 4th Century. Confessions

Saint Augustine of Hippo

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Martin Luther

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

Edward W. Howe