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

My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff.

Brad Bird

I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

Rand Paul

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Anais Nin

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

Julie Burchill

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Eckhart Tolle

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol -- cross or crescent or whatever -- that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

William Faulkner

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Gita Bellin

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

Jean de la Bruyere

Hope is the best part of our riches.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

William Faulkner

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Richard Buckminster Fuller