We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

George Burns

I don't believe in Apocalypses. I believe in Apocatastases. I think it may be the title for The Film. It's a bitch to pronounce, and no-one knows what it means, but otherwise it's a great title.

Neil Gaiman

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

William Lloyd Garrison

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Arthur Erickson

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

Michael Phelps

I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.

Juliette Binoche

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

?We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

Thomas Jefferson

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Chuck Berry

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Sir Walter Scott

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

J.K. Rowling