From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
-Salman Rushdie
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
-Epicurus
Our aspirations, our affections, and our desires are turned towards the wrong things. And only when we turn them towards the right things will things get better.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
-Francis Bacon
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen