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

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Helmut Schmidt

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

Benjamin E. Mays

What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

Jodi Picoult

Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.

Alfred Tennyson

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

William Penn

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

Bertrand Russell

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

Peter Singer

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

Gabrielle Union

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

John Cusack

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

E. B. White

When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.

Danny Pudi

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

Jim Wallis