Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.

My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor.

Keith David

The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.

Jodi Picoult

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

John Updike

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

Thomas Jefferson

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

Robert M. Gates

Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

Kenneth Hildebrand

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Mark Russell

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

Nick Clegg

It's not what you know, it's who you know.

Anonymous

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

Orlando Bloom

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

Phillip E. Johnson