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.

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.

Brian Eno

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie

Albert Einstein

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs.

Terry Pratchett

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

Edward James Olmos

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Hippocrates

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

Ralph Nader

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

Tony Snow

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

Charles Morgan

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

Albert Einstein

A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly.

Lionel Trilling