The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

Steve Martin

I like to just think of myself as a normal person who just has a passion, has a goal and a dream and goes out and does it. And that's really how I've always lived my life.

Michael Phelps

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Richard Dawkins

We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.

Lucy Powell

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

Barbara de Angelis

We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

Joseph Addison

Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.

Orrin Woodward

The discover of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

We live in deeds

Philip James Bailey

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem abouteverything.

Steven Wright

I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are hard to get. I will drive all the way to Pittsburgh or Detroit to put it in their hands.

Brian Michael Bendis