War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.

Colin Quinn

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.

Gretchen Wilson

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein

The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin-deep saying.

Herbert Spencer

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Dag Hammarskjold

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

Tom Petty

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.

Proverb

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

Helen Dunmore

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Javan

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Earl Nightingale

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Erik H. Erickson

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

John B. S. Haldane