My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Lorraine Hansberry

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.

Charles de Lint

Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

William Shakespeare

Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.

C.S. Lewis

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Maria Shriver

Respect the burden.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

Oksana Baiul

The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.

Maria Montessori

When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.

Tavis Smiley