Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.

Frank Crane

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Josh Billings

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.

Harry Chapin

All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which is ridiculous. I haven't done anything yet, and I think it's just common sense to send me to Washington and make me do my share.

Gore Vidal

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

Albert Camus

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

Fredrik Bajer

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Wayne Dyer

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Margaret Gatty

The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more.

Germaine Greer

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

Tracey Ullman

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Mark Twain

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

Iain Duncan Smith