Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary

I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.

Jeff Gordon

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

Richard Le Gallienne

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

Albert Einstein

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625

Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?

Bill Kristol

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Herbert Spencer

Honor the ocean of love.

George De Benneville

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

Herbert Croly

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

Moliere

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Truman Capote

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil

Mahatma Gandhi