It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

They that govern the most make the least noise.

John Selden

Take a simple idea and take it seriously.

Charlie Munger

One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

P. J. Harvey

What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

John Marsden

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

Cal Thomas

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'

Miranda Lambert

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something - and the switchboard operator knows everything.

Harold Coffin, quoted in The Pet

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.

Raymond Chandler

Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Francis Bacon

To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training.

Pauline Neville-Jones

All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

Percy Bysshe Shelley