Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

I have amazing people around me. I couldn't be in a better place. I'm grateful for my life and where I'm at. I never thought I could be in the position that I'm in.

Ashlee Simpson

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Princess of Wales Diana

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

Albert Camus

And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.

Lennart Nilsson

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

Voltaire

The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautiful. It is here that love gathers within you. Love is absolutely vital for a human life. For love alone can awaken what is divine within you. In love, you grow and come home to your self. When you learn to love and let yourself be loved, you come home to the hearth of your own spirit. You are warm and sheltered.

John O'Donohue

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.

Ron Silver

peace is not about the absence of conflict but it is about the presence of sincerity.

Toge Aprilianto

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

Eudora Welty

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

W. E. B. Du Bois

I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool, I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind's treason; Taliesin still, I show you a new world, risen, Stubborn with beauty, out of the heart's need.

R. S. Thomas

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Bruce Springsteen