The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by counsel. Even the intelligent and educated layman has small and sometimes no skill in the science of law.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

William Ralph Inge

Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.

Leo Tolstoy

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.

Haniel Long

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.

Maria Monk

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Sri Swami Sivananda

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

Randy Harrison

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

Bill Condon

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

Harri Holkeri

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Science follows the evidence wherever it leads, but Darwinism does not. So the present controversy over evolution is not a war between science and religion. It is primarily a war between Darwinism and evidence--and the evidence will win.

Jonathan Wells