The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.

Arabella Weir

James Ross Clemens, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or three weeks ago in London, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness; the report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

Mitchell Kapor

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else....

Winston Churchill

Culture follows power.

Fareed Zakaria

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them

David Hume

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

Andy Rooney

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

John Naisbitt

All politics is local.

Thomas P. O'Neill

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

Robert Kiyosaki

The Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.

George Orwell

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Samuel Butler