We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.

Hayden Fry

The proper study of mankind is books.

Aldous Huxley

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas Kempis

Freedom is from within.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

Margaret Oliphant

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Mark Twain

The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.

William Shakespeare

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

Sally Kellerman

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Samuel Johnson

A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.

John Steinbeck

Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.

Christopher Dodd