The most important human endeavour is striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;

Chinese Proverb

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

Loretta Young

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

Jodi Picoult

I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.

Michael K. Powell

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

Oscar Wilde

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

Mitchell Kapor

Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.

Suze Orman

We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.

Susan Sarandon

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

Patrick Ness

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Maggie Gallagher