Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

Louis Aragon

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!

Mariska Hargitay

The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The inventions in mechanic arts, the discoveries in natural philosophy, navigation and commerce, and the advancement of civilization and humanity, have occasioned changes in the condition of the world and the human character which would have astonished the most refined nations of antiquity. A continuation of similar exertions is everyday rendering Europe more and more like one community, or single family.

John Adams

My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I'm extremely proud of her.

Ron Livingston

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Wally Lamb

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

Sherry Stringfield

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Randall Jarrell

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

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... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

Michael J. Gelb

For a moment I lost myself, actually lost my life. I was set free! I belonged, without past or future, within peace and unity and a wild joy, within something greater than my own life . . . to life itself. I caught a glimpse of something greater than myself.

Eugene O'Neill, quoting the sour

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

A.A. Milne