The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Jackie Collins

...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...

John Geddes

Don't be stupid, it's a flying house!

J.K. Rowling

The fact is that we all seem capable of living, because at some time or other we have taken refuge in a lie, in blindness, in enthusiasm, in optimism, in some conviction, in pessimism or something of the sort. He has never taken refuge in anything. He is absolutely incapable of lying. He has nothing to take refuge in, no shelter. It's as if he were naked and everyone else had clothes on.

Milena Jesenska

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

Edie Falco

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein

The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.

George Bernard Shaw

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

Plato

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

Eduardo Galeano

Our alternative is either to stick to a moral tradition which we haven

Friedrich A. Hayek