Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

Henry David Thoreau

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Florence King

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Alexander Hamilton

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Brad Thor

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

Kesha

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Sir Winston Churchill

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

Peter Guber

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

J. P. Senn

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

Charles Dickens

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

Norman Jewison

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero