A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Billy Graham

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

T. Boone Pickens

The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.

Terry Pratchett

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

Shelby Lynne

We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.

George Steiner

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

Jhumpa Lahiri

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy

I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.

Erma Bombeck

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Lafcadio Hearn

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

Emily Post

I like that the art world isn't regulated.

Jerry Saltz

Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

Patrick Kavanagh