Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

Tony Kushner

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.

Julia Roberts

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

Mason Cooley

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

Robert Townsend

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Those who are lighthearted remind me of death.

Leo Tolstoy

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

Richard Milhous Nixon

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

William Tecumseh Sherman

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

Tim McGraw

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Erich Fromm

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Robert Delaunay

You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!

Bob Richards