Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

Aung San Suu Kyi

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Lionel Trilling

I think money in general hurts all sports.

Will McDonough

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Samuel Butler

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Plato

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.

Nick Clegg

Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.

Dan Abrams

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Octavio Paz

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.

Helen Thomas

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

P. J. Harvey

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

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