All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as beingself-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer. (Saint Thomas Moore)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas Jefferson)