I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output -- how much you produce -- not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

Shine bright, be yourself.

Stephen Richards

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

G. W. F. Hegel

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

Andrew Sullivan

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Milton Berle

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.

Vanna Bonta

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Desmond Tutu

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

Chris Tucker

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

Dwight Schultz