Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Will Rogers

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasures most dear.

Orson Scott Card

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

George Eliot

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

Joanne Woodward

As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.

Samuel Johnson

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Simon Pegg

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

Neil Gaiman

You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

Courtney Thorne Smith

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Walt Whitman

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

John Gay

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.

Mark Victor Hansen