Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

Yanni

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Oscar Wilde

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

Deborah Tannen

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Albert SzentGyorgyi

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible.

Mark Twain

I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

Michelle Obama

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Pablo Casals

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Victor Hugo

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.

Jostein Gaarder

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

Katharine Lee Bates