Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

My life is like a stroll upon the beach, As near the ocean's edge as I can go.

Henry David Thoreau

As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.

Judy Biggert

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

William Shakespeare

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.

Hung Ko

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

Whoopi Goldberg

The flush on her pale cheeks was like the blush of sunset on snow.

Faraaz Kazi

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

Ellen DeGeneres

My life has run from misery to happiness.

Loretta Lynn

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

Hugh Grant

The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.

Terry Pratchett

Fill your papers with the breathings of your heart.

William Wadsworth