When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Henry L. Stimson

Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Elizabeth Stone

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

Roberto Benigni

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

Max Muller

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

Bertrand Russell

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

Sue Grafton

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Vincent Van Gogh

Value is the way animal interest and partiality are experienced in consciousness. As such, they involve a relation between objects of pursuit, animal tendencies and the intuited moral essences the psyche projects on what it seeks. We cannot speak of virtue and vice, therefore, without taking the needs and the desires, the very nature of the animal into account. These natures are diverse and changeable; any overlap between them is a contingent matter of fact. Moral truth thus becomes empirical truth about morality, a prosaic catalogue of who prizes what, a record of the moral history of the world rather than a guide to its correct development.

John Lachs

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

Michel Foucault

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Thucydides

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner