Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.

Raymond Chandler

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

If you love someone, you're not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie--not really dead but not really alive, either.

Cassandra Clare

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Mark Twain

I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.

Emmitt Smith

Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.

Tina Louise

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

Mark Twain

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

Donella Meadows

A quick way to overcome your despair...is to go out and help someone else overcome theirs!

Timothy Pina

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Henry Ward Beecher

I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist.

Paul Harvey

Keep a cool head and a warm heart.

Mike Love