Nominate the most conservative candidate who is electable.
~ William F. Buckley

The tragedy with growing up is not that we lose childishness in its simplicity, but that we lose childlikeness in its sublimity.
~ Ravi Zacharias

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.
~ Francis Thompson

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
~ Francis Thompson

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
~ The Peter Principle

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
~ John Roberts, U.S. Chief Justice

It is pointless to try to educate someone who lives from hand to mouth about long term financial planning and saving for retirement.

Belief in virtue is more important than virtue itself
~ Don Quixote

People are poverty-stricken whenever their income, even if adequate for survival, falls markedly behind that of their community. Then they cannot have what the larger community regards as the minimum necessary for decency, and they cannot wholly escape, therefore, the judgment of the larger community that they are indecent.
~ J.K. Galbraith (in "The Affluent Society")

Christian love is unconditional in the sense of accepting, respecting, and showing goodwill to people just as they are, but it is not unconcerned or undiscerning about being beneficent as distinct from mere indulgent.
~ J. Packer

Episcopalianism is great. You don't have to believe in anything.
~ Missouri Episcopal youth group member

Show me a person whose material wealth is increasing and I will show you a person whose humility is diminishing.

Insomnia is the curse of the non-snoring classes.
~ free after Oscar Wilde

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
~ Pablo Picasso

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
~ Søren Kierkegaard

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
~ Søren Kierkegaard

Individuel Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.
~ Winston Churchill

It is part of our lives, in a way, that we cannot wake up in the morning and go through life without music and without having this essential aspect of it, that music means just as much as eating and drinking or living.
~ Janos Starker, cellist.

Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate him. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything he believes or does. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise conviction to be compassionate.
~ Rick Warren

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognise anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires.
~ Pope Benedict XVI

I believe that in this mad world, the only thing that is sane are the arts.
~ Frank Gehry

Environmentalism is the successor to failed socialism as justification for all-pervasive rule by a politburo of experts.
~ Vaclav Klaus

It’s a mistaken prejudice of our times to think that the only way to cheer someone up is to tell them something cheerful. Exaggerated tragic pronouncements work far better.
~ Alain de Botton

You know you grew up in the wrong part of the town when most of your friends are dead, in witness protection, or serving life sentences.

Friendship and money: oil and water.
~ Mario Puzo