Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

John Milton

But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.

Aristotle

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Martin Heidegger

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

C.S. Lewis

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

Emmanuelle Beart

A child is owed the greatest respect if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

Juvenal

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Mignon McLaughlin

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

Diane Abbott

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

James MacGregor Burns

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Karen Armstrong

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.

Nolan Ryan

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

William Shakespeare