Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Joaquin Miller

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

Dar Williams

What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

Harrison Christian, 1995 newspap

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Søren Kierkegaard

As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers

Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (

I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.

Cat Cora

The loving are the daring.

Bayard Taylor

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

Steve Lacy

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? -- not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Virginia Woolf

Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.

William Ellery Channing, The Mor

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?

Zebulon Pike

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Abdul Kalam