One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

Madeleine Peyroux

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

Sebastian Vettel

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

Victoria Principal

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

Shakti Gawain

You are joy, looking for a way to express. It's not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy-frolicking and eager. That's who you are.

Esther Hicks

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

Muhammad Yunus

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Adrian Cronauer

Just now the lilac is in bloom,

Rupert Brooke, The Old Vicarage,

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Marcus Aurelius

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

Charlize Theron

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men--the other 999 follow women.

Groucho Marx