If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Alex Haley

I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.

Dave Eggers

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

John Ruskin

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

George Orwell

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

Juliette Binoche

I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living

Steven Morrissey

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Dan Rather

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

Earl of Roscommon

What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

John Marsden

They had as good a shot at making it as anyone did, but what if marriage didn't solve anything and didn't save anyone even a little bit? What then?

Paula McLain