We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Emma Goldman

I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

Jenny Eclair

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination.

Alexander Cockburn

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

Edward Rickenbacker

The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.

Thomas Paine

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

Candace Parker

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, so. What did you think?

Steven Wright

I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.

Rose Kennedy

A promise must never be broken.

Alexander Hamilton

The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say me and mine ; they are only blessed in being instruments.

Swami Vivekananda

I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.

Teddy Thompson

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam