They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin

The Jabalites .... They worship no god; and if we in goodness of heart do send a missionary to show them the way of life, they listen with respect to all he hath to say, and then they eat him. This doth tend to hinder the spread of light.

Mark Twain

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Noam Chomsky

I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.

Charlotte Church

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.

Hannah Arendt

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert

Kahlil Gibran

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

Frances Mayes

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Joan Baez

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Nicholas Murray Butler

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

Robert Walpole

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Oliver Goldsmith