The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Joichi Ito

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

Paul Hawken

I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.

Liev Schreiber

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

Victor Hugo

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Albert Ellis

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

Derek Walcott

The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

Francis Quarles

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

Toni Morrison

Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness.

Martin Luther King Jr.