Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life - and if we fail, our government stands ready with Bandaids of every size.

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

Howard Dean

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.

Christopher Paolini

Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease.

Plutarch

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

Douglas Coupland

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Robert Smithson

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

John Avlon

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Margaret Mead

The acquisition of a new truth is like the acquisition of a new sense, which renders a man capable and recognizing a large number of phenomena that are hidden from another, as they were from him originally.

Justus von Liebig

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

C.S. Lewis

When you part from your friend,you grieve not;For that which you love most in himmay be clearer in his absence,as the mountain to the climberis clearer from the plain.

Kahlil Gibran

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

Stephen King