Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Henry Ward Beecher

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Kitty Kelley

Business is the salt of life.

Voltaire

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

Ambrose Bierce

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street

Stephen Hawking

Practice is everythingThis is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

Periander

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Vittorio Alfieri

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Mahatma Gandhi

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

Christine Feehan

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung

Bod said, I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want, he said, and then he paused, and thought. I want everything.

Neil Gaiman