My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

Source Unknown

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Annie Besant

He soon felt that the realization of his desire had given him only a grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. It showed him the eternal error people make in imagining that happiness is the realization of desires.

Leo Tolstoy

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden, i

I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.

Picabo Street

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.

Dan Rather

We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.

Wendy Mass

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

Whitney Houston

Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case.

Source Unknown

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

Wayne Gretzky

Revolutions are always verbose.

Leon Trotsky