It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

Leonard Peltier

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who speak truth to power but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.

Thomas Sowell

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Lyman Abbott

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edleman

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.

Jimmy Carr

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

Colin Firth

In the car and in front of the camera I tend to be very calm but behind the scenes I can get fired up and passionate, I just don't see the need to shout my mouth off in public.

Jenson Button

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

Tia Carrere

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

Herbert A. Simon

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

Camille Anna Paglia