We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

George Carlin

We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future.

Patti Callahan Henry

Now he could say for sure that he'd never known a feeling stronger than that of being at one with another person - that rare feeling of not being alone anymore.

Guillaume Musso

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

Leon Jouhaux

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

Joseph Schumpeter

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

Irwin Edman

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

Elizabeth Edwards

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

Warren Earl Burger

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Ovid

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Chely Wright

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

Sarah Michelle Gellar