We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love.

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

S. J. Perelman

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

Maya Angelou

Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style.

Peter Mckay

I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

Gianni Versace

I'm definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn't have a clue, as far as getting the computer working. All of my kids, it's amazing. Like everybody's kids, they're more savvy than I am, probably.

Chris O'Donnell

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

Stephen Covey

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.

Harry Chapin

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Maxwell Maltz

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Will Durant

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

William F. Buckley

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

Anna Howard Shaw