If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

Robert Herrick

I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.

David Miliband

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?

Andrew Greeley

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

Walter Annenberg

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Abbie Hoffman

Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are a number of irrelevant differences. But it is clear that until social expectations for men and women are equal, until we provide equal respect for both sexes, answers to this question will simply reflect our prejudices.

Naomi Weisstein

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

Peter Henry Abrahams, Tell Freed

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

Proverb

A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.

Henry Liddon

The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.

Blaise Pascal

Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Lin Yutang