There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times. Some people are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Sydney J. Harris

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

Diane Abbott

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Ingmar Bergman

There are three arts which are concerned with all things; one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them

Plato

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

Source Unknown

The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.

David Martyn LloydJones

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

If you look at anybody who's had along career, if you look at the choices they've made - even if the movies haven't worked - they've always worked with great filmmakers.

Bradley Cooper

I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

Ice Cube

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

Theodore Sturgeon