I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

Jodi Picoult

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Reinhold Niebuhr

I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think.

Jane Austen

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

Samantha Barks

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

Patti Smith

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

Jean M. Auel

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

Oprah Winfrey, "O Magazine", Feb

Come fu che le loro labbra s'incontrarono? Come avviene che l'uccello canta, che la neve si scioglie, che la rosa sboccia, che maggio d? i suoi fiori, che l'alba imbianca dietro gli alberi neri le cime frementi delle colline? Un bacio, e fu tutto.

Victor Hugo

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

Michael Gove

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.

Thomas Jefferson