It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...

Alexander Pushkin

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

Gene Tierney

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

Ted Olson

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

James Gleick

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Madame Dorothe Deluzy

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beecher

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.

Rudyard Kipling

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Ruth Rendell

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

Eckhart Tolle

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

Michel Foucault