Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Mark Twain

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

James Baldwin

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

Leonard Nimoy

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

Giada De Laurentiis

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Galileo Galilei

This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.

George Bernard Shaw

The beginning of thought is in disagreement -- not only with others but also with ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

Simone Weil