Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

Elizabeth Bowen

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Human has no experience at all aboutliving in a peaceful world without war.

Toba Beta

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

David Hume

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

Studs Terkel

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

Geraldine Brooks

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Omar Bongo

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

Albert Einstein

When you pray, all heaven prays with you. That's a mighty army.

Kristen Heitzmann

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Gertrude Stein

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

Jane Austen