And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

Henry S. Haskins

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?

Dustin Hoffman

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Doris Lessing

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Dolly Parton

To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a Woman, the opposite of a Man, that is, the female must act like a faggot.

Valerie Solanis

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

Khaled Hosseini

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Alice Walker

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

Robert A. Taft

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy