The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Voltaire

Love is metaphysical gravity.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

Goldwin Smith

We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

John Donne

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

William S. Burroughs

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

George Will

You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.

Terry Pratchett

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

David Levithan

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

Alec Baldwin

With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.

Samuel Johnson

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Jane Austen

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri Frederic Amiel