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?

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Virginia Woolf

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Jim Rohn

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

Mary Baker Eddy

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

JeanPaul Sartre, Upon refusing t

Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting MightThat fashioned forth its lovelinessHad other aims than my delight.

Thomas Hardy

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

Kin Hubbard

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

Luke Wilson

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

William Graham Sumner

My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.

Charles Kennedy

All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.

Francis Galton

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Arthur Conan Doyle

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

Plato