To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Who the hell are we to determine the next course of evolution for these people?

Captain Jean-Luc Picard

There's some people who do things so bad it tears the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn. They see things, they know things, only they're so good and pure that they don't understand what it is that they're seeing.

Orson Scott Card

Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.

George Henry Lewes

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

David Hockney

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Roman Gary

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

David Bailey

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

Michael N. Castle

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Benjamin Disraeli

So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.

Patrick J. Adams

One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.

Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essa

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.

St. Gregory The Great