If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Richard Rorty

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Aristotle

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Booker T. Washington

Communists should be the first to be concerned about other people and country and the last to enjoy themselves.

Zhao Ziyang

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.

Paula Deen

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

Neale Donald Walsch

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Wayne Dyer

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Mahatma Gandhi

The way to avoid responsibility is to say, I've got responsibilities.

Richard Bach

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

Confucius

All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.

John Podhoretz

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Susan Sontag