It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Baruch Spinoza

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

William James

Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.

Charles Dickens

I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.

Jodi Picoult

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.

Sharon Osbourne

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

April Greiman

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

Michael Sheen

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.

Nadia Scrieva

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Bill Gates