Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.

Orson Scott Card

Is a PLONGEUR'S work really necessary to civilization? We have a feeling that it must be 'honest' work, because it is hard and disagreeable, and we have made a sort of fetish of manual work. We see a man cutting down a tree, and we make sure that he is filling a social need, just because he uses his muscles; it does not occur to us that he may only be cutting down a beautiful tree to make room for a hideous statue. I believe it is the same with a PLONGEUR. He earns his bread in the sweat of his brow, but it does not follow that he is doing anything useful; he may be only supplying a luxury which, very often, is no luxury at all.

George Orwell

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Dennis Rodman

We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.

David R. Hawkins

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

George Burns

Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

Ingrid Newkirk

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.

Jennifer Beals

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Carl Sagan

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Dr. C. E. Welch

As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.

Simon Mainwaring

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Robert Hughes

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

Simone Weil