There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

No one is to blame because there is no one other than you. Nothing is to disrespect because there is nothing other than you.

Amit Ray

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Norman Douglas

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

Johannes Tauler

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Lucille Ball

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

Louisa May Alcott

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Mary Douglas

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

Thandie Newton

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

K. D. Lang

God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.

Julian of Norwich

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Robert Kennedy