I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

Theodore Roosevelt

If the truth is there, bad writing won't hurt it !

Alfred Adler

Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Robert Orben

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

Diane Wakoski

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

Glen Hansard

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Shirin Ebadi

We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.

Christopher Hitchens

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

Ian Botham

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Buddha