Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

Cesar Chavez

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

No hay caminos para la paz; la paz es el camino.

Mahatma Gandhi

It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing wife or whether commercials make you cry. [...] it's about whether you step up. When something hard comes along. A man steps up. He doesn't dodge it or run away from it or try to push it onto someone else. He steps up. Even if it isn't his responsibility. And that's why there are so many guys and so few men. Because stepping up is hard.

Ben Monopoli

A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

Edie Brickell

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

Anna Deavere Smith

People are never free of trying to be content.

Murray Bookchin

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Albert Bandura

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

Thomas Jefferson

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Ambrose Bierce

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling