The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

The rejection of knowledge (ignorance) attracts a reaction from God.

And Moses said, "If you should disbelieve, you and whoever is on the earth entirely - indeed, Allah is Free of need and Praiseworthy.

Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!

Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. Without it, there would be chaos and ignorance.

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

I'm most often surrounded by people, so what I usually crave is time alone.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.

I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.