A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and whi

George Orwell

A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you.

Ramsey Clark

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

John Patrick

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

Paul Ryan

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

Ovid

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

Rachel Roy

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Victor Hugo

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may

Charles Dickens

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.

Maria Sharapova

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Cynthia Heimel

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

Dennis Kucinich