To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

Laura Benanti

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Aldrich Ames

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Salman Rushdie

Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.

Robert Warshow

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

George Bernard Shaw

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

Hamid Karzai

A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

John Milton

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more.

Germaine Greer

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Denis Diderot

People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.

Robert Jensen

I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.

Santigold