Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Sally Field

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Frank Romer

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Karl Marx

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

John Churton Collins

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Lech Walesa

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Morgan Freeman

All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.

Sienna Miller

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.

Ambrose Bierce

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

Jimmy Carter

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Marya Mannes, "A Word to the Wiz

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

Virginia Woolf