America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Bette Davis

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

Henry David Thoreau

I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'

Jenny Eclair

I am rather inclined to silence.

Abraham Lincoln

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

Ernest Istook

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.

Peter Camejo

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

George Santayana

Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall; Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught, Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth: O God! O Montreal!

Samuel Butler (novelist)

I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.

Britney Spears

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Karl Kraus

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Aristotle