Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Albert Camus

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

Christie Hefner

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

William Shakespeare

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

Andrea Dworkin

Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Richard Dawkins

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

John Stuart Mill

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

Orson Scott Card

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

Michelle Obama

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

George Bernard Shaw