The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.

Duane Chapman

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Philo

The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp.

Italian Proverb

It is so rare to meet with a man out-doors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands.

Henry David Thoreau

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

Edward Sapir

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

Kat Dennings

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

Paul Weyrich

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.

Quentin Crisp

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

Robert Morgan

One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.

James Lovelock

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

Jean Paul Richter

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Michael J. Fox