If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

And Wisdom be the Daughter of Experience

Leonardo DaVinci

What are you doing sister? / Killing swine.

William Shakespeare

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

C.S. Lewis

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

Bill Maher

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

Hugh Grant

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

Steve Kerr

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

Rebecca West

Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.

Jason Schwartzman

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

Dick Van Dyke

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

Diablo Cody

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

John Cassis

There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

Eric Hoffer