There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas Alva Edison

Packing is my pet hate.

Seal

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Salman Rushdie

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

Henry David Thoreau

The more things change, the more they are the same.Plus

Alphonse Karr, Les Gu, January,

I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

Daphne Zuniga

A favorite has no friend!

Thomas Gray

Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax. I love it, but it's not right for everybody. It's taught to you a little bit at a time, according to your body type and your strength. That keeps things challenging.

Lisa Edelstein

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.

Jeremy Jackson

And who shall separate the dustWhat later we shall be:Whose keen discerning eye will scanAnd solve the mystery?The high, the low, the rich, the poor,The black, the white, the red,And all the chromatique between,Of whom shall it be said:Here are the sons of Africa;Here lies the dust of Rome;Here lies the one unlabeled,The world at large his home!Can one then separate the dust?Will mankind lie apart,When life has settled back againThe same as from the start?

Georgia Douglas Johnson, Commom