The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

Jennifer Garner

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

Kenneth R. Miller

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

Marcus Garvey

I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world...perhaps you've seen it.

Steven Wright

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

Kim Campbell

The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.

Henry Miller

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

Andre Malraux, The Voices of Sil

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons

Ernest Hemingway

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

Eric Braeden

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

George Jean Nathan

Mamma says we would be wise to remember that what goes around usually comes back around to us - the good or the bad - depending on which we dish out.

Annette Bridges