Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow 'aimed' at humans, or that humans are 'evolution's last word'.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Vittorio Alfieri

You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit.

Ronald Reagan

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

John Updike

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

Godfrey Reggio

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

Vladimir Putin

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.

Mitch Hedberg

Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.

Marcel Proust

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

H. Rap Brown

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

Nancy Banks Smith