Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly?

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Charles Dickens

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

Patricia Cornwell

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

Kingsley Amis

And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

Kurt Vonnegut

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

Steven Wright

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

Jodi Picoult

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Michael Morpurgo

She's not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that's the nature and quality of that woman that she can say that.

John Prescott

Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Theodor Adorno

And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.

Monica Lewinsky

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Jared Diamond