The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

Sam Keen

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

Tracey Ullman

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

Juliette Binoche

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't a true love.. the love that speaks the language of the world.

Paulo Coelho

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Ronald Reagan

And that's humbling, knowing that your voice can mean so much to another person.

Kirsty Eagar

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Wendell Berry

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

Jessica Hagedorn

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

Van Wyck Brooks

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.

Thurgood Marshall