But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Henry David Thoreau

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

Amartya Sen

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

Neil Armstrong, on jogging, in a

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

Jane Roberts

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

William Arthur Ward

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

Shania Twain

His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage.

William Shakespeare

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

Jean Rostand

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Gilbert Seldes

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

J. K. Rowling

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson