Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

There are two kinds of artists in this world those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

Anna Katharine Green

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

Jim Harrison

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

Chris Christie

He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it. Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men. All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, which was neither milk for babes, nor any chalky mixture meant to pass for milk, and it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

George Eliot

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Henry Ford

These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what we are.

Terry Pratchett

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Herbert Spencer

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

Hubert Humphrey

This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn't understand my own feelings. And because I can't understand them, I blame her for provoking in me feelings that make my world seem suddenly unsafe.

Paulo Coelho

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

R. Buckminster Fuller

In dreams and love there are no impossibilities.

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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau