"It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!" - Anthony de MelloTweet
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." - Richard DawkinsTweet
"Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude." - Francois de La RochefoucauldTweet
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand." - Colin PowellTweet
"The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty." - Samuel SmilesTweet
"Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces." - Julius CaesarTweet
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." - Lee IacoccaTweet
"It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere." - Keith RichardsTweet
"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin FranklinTweet
"Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit." - W. Clement StoneTweet