Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Family is more than blood

Cassandra Clare

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

Meryl Streep

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Friedrich von Schiller

This isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

Phillip E. Johnson

Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.

Gael Garcia Bernal

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Claude A. Helvetius

My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm -- as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

Camille Anna Paglia

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Feeling does not succeed in converting consolation into truth, nor does reason succeed in converting truth into consolation.

Miguel de Unamuno

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

Marcus Garvey

And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Kurt Vonnegut

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Helen Schucman