What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

George Washington Carver

A strange thing has happened -- while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.

Virginia Woolf

Truth in all its kinds is most difficult to win; and truth in medicine is the most difficult of all.

Peter Mere Latham

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom imaginable, freedom from violence and lies, no matter what form the latter two take. Such is the program I would adhere to if I were a major artist.

Anton Chekhov

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

Stephen King

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Desmond Tutu

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

Doris Lessing

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

Jane Fonda

Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

Christopher Paolini

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

Nate Silver

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

Delta Goodrem