People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

Henry Ford

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Wayne Dyer

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

John Henry Newman

We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.

Billy Burke

You can walk around this culture now, as a proud supporter of the so called anti-war movement and it's made up of a lot of people I used to know I'd like for them to be asked more often than they are, if your advice had been taken over the last 15 or so years; Slobodan Milosevic would still be the dictator of not just Serbia but also of a cleansed and ruined Bosnia and Kosovo. Saddam Hussein would still be the owner of Kuwait as well as Iraq, he would of nearly have doubled his holding of the worlds oil. The Taliban would still be in charge of Afghanistan. Don't you feel a little reproach to your so called high principle anti-war policy? Would that really have led to less violence, less cruelty?

Christopher Hitchens

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

Henry David Thoreau

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

Shirley Manson

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Christopher Hitchens

I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

Steven Wright

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Alfred Nobel

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

Marilyn Hacker