Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

Billy Corgan

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

Huston Smith

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.

Tom Vilsack

Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been ro

Horace

Sometimes silence can be the strongest and most compassionate answer.

Steve Maraboli

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

Daniel Yergin

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

Dennis Miller

Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligulas horse was made Consul.

John Randolph

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

Patti Smith

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mahatma Gandhi

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Jean Shinoda Bolen