I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Alice Walker

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy --common clay, if you like --eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others --the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.

Jean Anouilh

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erik H. Erickson

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Coco Chanel

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

Marco Rubio

Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Sophocles

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Swami Vivekananda

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

Source Unknown

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

David Cameron

The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off.

Wilbur Smith