Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

Ted Danson

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Knut Hamsun

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

Sister Corita Kent

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Arthur Christopher Benson

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.

Cameron Diaz

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

Jonathan Sacks

No man is much pleased with a companion, who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself.

Samuel Johnson

After sticking out life, I hope it's whatever you want it to be.

Jodi Picoult

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

Konstantin Stanislavisky

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Joseph Joubert