Enlightenment must come little by little-otherwise it would overwhelm.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

George Gurdjieff

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

Emma Goldman

I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate.

Eva Herzigova

I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I'm in my head so much, and I'm thinking so much, I'm playing a tug-of-war within my mind.

Khalid

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

Martin Scorsese

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Victor Hugo

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.

Wilhelm Stekel

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Francoise Sagan

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies -- thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Christopher Hitchens

The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, to the rising sun, and to the light of the soul.

Dennis Kucinich