I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Mark Twain

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

Joseph Stiglitz

One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.

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A man will turn over half a library to make one book

Samuel Johnson

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

Edith Sitwell

But the inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted observation, already discovered; but why should he say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable. How were people, at that rate, to be understood?

Jane Austen

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

Christine Baranski

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

Peter Singer

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it bein your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, fromreligion.

John Wooden

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Dalai Lama

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

George Eliot