The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

David Herbert Lawrence

The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

Randy Neugebauer

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Milan Kundera

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

Doug Horton

Why, my goodness, honey. After looking at all those pictures of seraphic and perspirationless babes for so long in the privacy of a foxhole, what is a poor doughfoot going to do when he comes home and discovers that American women are, after all, biological and given, under stress, to shiny noses?

Margaret Mitchell

While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.

Jonathan Sacks

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

Albert Einstein

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Helen Rowland

Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

J.K. Rowling

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry