After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

Willard Gaylen

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Hobart Brown

Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.

Henry David Thoreau

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

Robin Wright Penn

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

A.A. Milne

I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.

Emma Watson

Will looked as if he were being asked to believe in something impossible snow in summertime, a London winter without rain.

Cassandra Clare

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Friedrich von Schiller

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Oliver Cromwell

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

Swami Vivekananda

Once I traveled about in an old bakery wagon, double-doored rattler with a mattress on the floor, I stopped where people stopped or gathered, I listened and looked and felt, and in the process had a picture of my country the accuracy of which was impaired only by my own shortcomings.

John Steinbeck, Travels With Cha