In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

Olin Miller

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

LeVar Burton

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Ernest Hemingway

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

James Barrie

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.

Austin Kleon

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

Nadine Gordimer

I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.

Julie Christie

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

Whoopi Goldberg

All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radient moments together. Now I cannot live apart from you...Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Sarah Bernhardt