In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

Martin Sheen

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

Michael Landon

The field of the soul must be watered by the rain with tears of love; otherwise it will become a desert.

Sorin Cerin

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Aristotle

Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?

Richard Eberhart

Education is the cheap defence of nations.

Edmund Burke

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

Jeff Bezos

We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

James Baldwin

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

Oscar Wilde

I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.

Ziggy Marley

I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?

Charles Cumming

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Josh Billings