All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.

At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens -- women, workers and the members of subject races -- to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete.

Vera Brittain

Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy.

Steve Maraboli

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

Rick Baker

My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...

Benjamin Rush

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

Thomas Jefferson

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

Susan Coolidge

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

William Hague

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

George Crabbe

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Louis D. Brandeis

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.

Freeman Dyson

I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.

Phyllis McGinley