A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

Roger Ebert

A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

Rosalyn Sussman

I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.

John Green

Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Jeanette Winterson

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

David Rockefeller

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.

Mia Wasikowska

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Phillips Brooks

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

Hugh Jackman

Die Wahrheit wird nicht im Zorn gesprochen. Die Wahrheit, wenn sie denn gesprochen wird, wird im Geist der Liebe gesprochen.

J.M. Coetzee