A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

Christopher Meloni

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Havelock Ellis

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Charles Darwin

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Jimi Hendrix

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

Barbara Jordan

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

Sherman Alexie

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Walter Bagehot

Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Napoleon Bonaparte