Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Time is bunk.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.