If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

Bill Maher

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'

Roy Blount, Jr.

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.

Pete Coors

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Aldous Huxley

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

Walter Lippmann

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

Dame Edith Sitwell

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Aristotle

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Rene Descartes

Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it

Aristotle

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

James Russell Lowell