Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

Jim Valvano

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Honore de Balzac

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

Rachel Weisz

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Mark Twain

In simplicity there is truth.

River Phoenix

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Eliza Farnham

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Eugene Delacroix

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

Wynton Marsalis

Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.

Etta James

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Christopher Lasch

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Juvenal

The ego is not master in its own house.

Sigmund Freud