"Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open."

“Everything is in how you are going to handle it. As a lifelong nightclub comic, I'm ready to handle whatever I have to handle.”

“It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

“We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.”

“Hitting is better than sex.”

“If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels right, use it. If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels wrong, don’t waste so much as a single second on it. It may be fine for someone else, but not for you.”

“This Sabbath day has been designated as a day of thanksgiving, a day of gratitude-even a day of prayer. We pause, we ponder, we reflect on the blessings an all-wise Heavenly Father has bestowed upon us, His children, by bringing peace to the battlefield of war and comfort to the hearts of so many in this wonderful world where we live and which we call home”

“I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.”

Source : Francis William Newman (1850). “Phases of Faith; or, passages from the history of my creed”, p.1

“I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.”