I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

Yoko Ono

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

Howard Zinn

God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.

Willie Aames

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

Andrew Shue

Doubt is the father of invention.

Galileo Galilei

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

Jim Harrison

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

Seamus Heaney

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

William James

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Katharine Hepburn

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.

Lauren Conrad

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

Victor Hugo