The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried through the sky, can witness that we fear not death.

Source Unknown

People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.

Victor Hugo

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Charles Peguy

Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.

Bernard Baruch

Nakedness reveals itself.Nudity is placed on display.The nude is condemned to neverbeing naked.Nudity is a form of dress.

John Berger

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Meryl Streep

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Dennis Prager

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

Arundhati Roy

I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.

Carly Rae Jepsen

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.

Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Va