Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.

Samuel Johnson

The graces once made up their mind - A shrine inviolate to find: And thus they found, and that with ease, The soul of Aristophanes

Plato

We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe's direction. That's also my logic when I tell voters that electing me president will not only shape France's future, but also initiate change across all of Europe.

Francois Hollande

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

James Taylor

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

Paulo Coelho

Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started.

Jodi Picoult

But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom.

Orson Scott Card

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

Mark Twain

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life

Bertrand Russell

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Isadora Duncan

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Helen Schucman

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

Albert Einstein