As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.

Thomas Kempis

I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity.

Julie Christie

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet.

Harry Kurnitz

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.

Jodi Picoult

Don't count your owls before they are delivered.

J.K. Rowling

Their smiles and laughter are due to their habit of thinking pleasurably aloud about the pleasures of life. They have humanity rather than humour, and the real significance of the distinction is seldom understood.

Luigi Barzini, The Italians, 196

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Kahlil Gibran

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Isaac Asimov

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

William Allen White

I will open my mouth in a parable I will utter dark sayings of old.Things that we have heard and known,that our fathers told us.We will not hide them from their children,but tell it to the coming generations.

Bible, Psalm 78:14

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

Richard J. Daley

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.

Frank Luntz