The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.

That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.

Randy West

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

Gary L. Francione

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.

C.S. Lewis

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

John Hawkes

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

Noam Chomsky

And still the question, What shall be done with our ex-Presidents? is not laid at rest; and I sometimes think Wattersons solution of it, Take them out and shoot them, is worthy of attention.

Grover Cleveland

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Rumi

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

The Talmud

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

William Gibson

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Minna Antrim

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Kahlil Gibran