Idiot's Lantern Quotes & Sayings

A politician who brings personal integrity into leadership helps us reclaim the popular trust that distinguishes true democracy from its cheap imitations. — Parker J. Palmer

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties. — Agatha Christie

Happiness is ... the grace of being permitted to unfold ... all the spiritual powers planted within us. — Franz Werfel

Hollywood got into the act, with director Cecil B. DeMille helping erect literally thousands of granite monuments to the Ten Commandments across the nation as part of a promotional campaign for his blockbuster film of the same name. — Kevin M. Kruse

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless. — Bryan Davis

Living takes courage. So does dying. — Juliet Blackwell

Oop - I is tripped. — Walt Kelly

The fear of loss is an engine of horrors, but also a source of the greatest forms of heroism. There's not a lot of art that puts that in bold letters. It's psychologically very interesting and acute, I think. That's not the central reading, I think, of the New Testament. — Cass Sunstein