Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

John Welsh

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

Susana Martinez

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

Emma Roberts

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives: the parent who punches instead of kissing, the auto accident that takes a loved one, the cancer we one day discover living in our own bodies. If such terrible occurrences were acts of darkness, they might actually be easier to cope with. But instead of being dark, they have their own terrible brilliance. . . and none shine so bright as the acts of cruelty we sometimes perpetrate in our own families.

Stephen King

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

Steven Spielberg

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state.

Jane Austen

Visit us again, Savior. Your children, burdened with disbelief, blinded by a patina of wisdom, carom down this vale of fear. We cry for you although we have lost your name.

Maya Angelou

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

Jessica Savitch

Good, capable individuals unconsciously and consciously guard and nurture themselves and their spirits every day in all sorts of choices, large and small. Just as their lives are never static, they are rarely if ever fractured. Their morals and ethics are never cut off from the whole of their evolving beings.

Donald Van de Mark