The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

Sarah Hughes

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

Adolf Hitler

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

Lee Pace

One day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advice--though the whole housebegan to trembleand you felt the old tugat your ankles.Mend my life!each voice cried.But you didn't stop.You knew what you had to do,though the wind priedwith its stiff fingersat the very foundations,though their melancholywas terrible.It was already lateenough, and a wild night,and the road full of fallenbranches and stones.But little by little,as you left their voices behind,the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds,and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own,that kept you companyas you strode deeper and deeperinto the world,determined to dothe only thing you could do--determined to savethe only life you could save.(copyrighted material)

Mary Oliver, The Journey

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]

Terry Pratchett

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Anthony Powell

I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don't just go ahead and be happy.

Orson Scott Card

I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.

Sir Francis Drake

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

Sam Kean

Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achieve... the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating on one point.

Orison Swett Marden