I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Henry Ward Beecher

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Elbert Hubbard

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

Dave Barry

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

Terry Eagleton

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I was born by Caesarean section... But not so you'd notice.It's just that when I leave a house, I go out through thewindow.

Steven Wright

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Germaine De Stael

Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.

Jane Austen

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

Marguerite Duras

First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Loni Anderson