A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Anne Frank

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.

Lexa Doig

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

Samuel Butler

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Aisha Tyler

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

Oscar Wilde, from Intentions

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

Michael Franti

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

Irving R. Kaufman

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

Michael Landon

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

Chris Evans

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Otto von Bismarck

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Phyllis Diller