Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

love is nothing but an overrated emotion that brings nothing but pain to those unfortunate enough to suffer from it.

Carole Mortimer

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Erich Fromm

If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.

Hesiod

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

America Ferrera

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Nelson Mandela

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

Bill Nelson

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- because they were too obvious.

Andre Gide, The Journals of Andr