Never argue; repeat your assertion.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Never argue; repeat your assertion.

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

Courts of law and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

The standards of the international community manifest firmness. Iran has no need for long-range missiles or to collaborate with terrorist organizations all over the world.

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

Cancer is caused by what you do for many, many years, not what you do for a few weeks or months.

I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really.

We live in the world's greatest democracy; we want for nothing. And that which we want, we can work toward achieving.

Credit is like a looking glass which when once sullied by a breath may be wiped clear again but if once cracked can never be repaired.

The mother is the one who is going to help you in the long run! You must make her your friend. It matters what she thinks.

People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can't have both a rich desktop and a light, cloud-based application framework. Why is it always either/or for people?

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a real, adult, democratic debate about the Europe we want.

It is just that all my life I have been so involved in my work that I guess one could say in general that, whenever I had to balance my private life and my profession, my profession always won out.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens.

When I was a kid, I reckoned things in Hershey bars. Is this worth three Hershey bars to me?

If you want to achieve success, there cannot be a Plan B.

My parents have seen me flirt with girls in front of them, so they're kind of used to it.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken and Id rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken pieces as long as I lived

I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts.

If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!