My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Robert Brustein

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

Barbara Walters

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too'.

Margaret Thatcher

Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

Samuel Butler

Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.

Steven Rattner

Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people's approval on how you live it.

Steve Maraboli

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Sidney Madwed

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.

Sarah Josepha Hale

If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.

Source Unknown

Where there had been hope, there was now hopelessness. Where there had been courage, there was now cynicism. Where there had been life, there was a living death. During Nixon's reign, much of life was transformed into a nightmare.

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

John Enoch Powell

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

John Stuart Mill