Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure

There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not in the forearm.

Beverly Sills

The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

John Lancaster Spalding

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

H. P. Lovecraft

I do like to move and get physical in my movies.

Nicolas Cage

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

Liam Gallagher

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

Havelock Ellis

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

Adrienne Rich

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Isaac Asimov

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

George Eliot

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Ansel Adams

I like humor.

David Yates

By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.

Natan Sharansky