Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

Sir Winston Churchill

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

Rosie O'Donnell

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.

William Hazlitt, The Conversatio

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

Dee Dee Myers

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

Marlon Brando

But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.

Mark Ruffalo

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

Charlie Sheen

Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

George Eliot

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

John Wooden

Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.

Terry Pratchett

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

Albert Schweitzer