Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.

Mollie Marti

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

Carly Fiorina

If you can't go over, you must go under.

Yiddish Proverb

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

Jane Austen

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Camille Pissarro

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

Mary Lou Retton

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Noelie Alito

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

Russell Baker

I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.

Dakota Fanning

The language of truth is simple.

Euripides

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

Manuel Puig