I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Jayne Crook

The field of the soul must be watered by the rain with tears of love; otherwise it will become a desert.

Sorin Cerin

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.

George Carlin

Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.

Jason Mraz

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

Richard Lugar

...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others?

Brenda Ueland

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Dorothy Thompson

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Benjamin Franklin

Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.

Mia Wasikowska

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful

Mark Twain

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

Jim DeMint

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

Jerry Saltz