A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.

Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.

Rob Sheffield

God loveth a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:7

Bible

We are the environment.

Charles Panati

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

George Eliot

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

Christina Aguilera

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

Buddha

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

Carol Ann Duffy

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Sydney Pollack

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Dalai Lama

Modeling has given me the opportunity to travel outside of Brazil and see the world. I have been meeting many interesting and talented people along the way.

Izabel Goulart

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

George M. Cohan