When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater.

George Bernard Shaw

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

Ted Olson

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

Anthony Robbins

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

John Steinbeck

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Oscar Wilde

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Hosea Ballou

Life is too precious to worry about what could or will happen. Life is..what you make it

E'yen A. Gardner

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

Josh Brolin

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

Lynn Margulis

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience what things are funny and not.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

Desmond Tutu