If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.

Barbara Marciniak

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

Jenny Shipley

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Joseph De Maistre

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Jonathan Swift

Life can be as easy as you wish to make it, or as difficult as you are prepared to believe that it is.

Steven Redhead

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

David Suzuki

Openness, respect, integrity - these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.

Justin Trudeau

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer.

Joseph Addison, "The Spectator",

It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.

Raymond Chandler

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

Jhumpa Lahiri

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

C. S. Lewis

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

Anna Held