The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Paul Boese

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

Jeremy Bentham

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

Jeff Bridges

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Marian Anderson

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Thomas Aquinas

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

Chaka Fattah

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

David Attenborough

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

Kanye West

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

Vera Wang

Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.

Paulo Coelho

Silence has so much meaning.

American Indian Proverb, Yurok

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

Pola Negri