We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

The high note is not the only thing.

Placido Domingo

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

Dita Von Teese

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

Jeremy Irons

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

Sargent Shriver

That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.

Orson Scott Card

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.

Rene Coty

The worst old age is that of the mind.

William Hazlitt

Jody Hill, who I created 'Eastbound And Down' and 'Fist Foot Way' with, was my best man at my wedding.

Danny McBride

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

John W. Foster

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

Yael Naim

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

Matthew Arnold

...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart. Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear. She left it all behind her, all but the recollection that such things had been.

Jane Austen