Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience.

Jeff Healey

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

Gertrude Stein

You can't eat compliments.

Charles Monroe Schulz, (Snoopy)

A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.

Thomas Somerville

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

Benjamin Disraeli

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

Larry Elder

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Bryant H. McGill

I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.

Laura Bush

If God calls you to be a missionary, don't stoop to be a king.

Jordan Grooms