I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school!

Lorrie Fair

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

Mark Twain

The more we have the less we own.

Meister Eckhart

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

William Shakespeare

She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat.

Jodi Picoult

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Samuel Smiles

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Thomas Carlyle

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

Shelley Berman

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

Camille Paglia

The Media is an abstraction (because a newspaper is not concrete and only in an abstract sense can be considered an individual), which in association with the passionlessness and reflection of the times creates that abstract phantom, the public, which is the actual leveler. . . . More and more individuals will, because of their indolent bloodlessness, aspire to become nothing, in order to become the public, this abstract whole, which forms in this ridiculous manner: the public comes into existence because all its participants become third parties. This lazy mass, which understands nothing and does nothing, this public gallery seeks some distraction, and soon gives itself over to the idea that everything which someone does, or achieves, has been done to provide the public something to gossip about. . . . The public has a dog for its amusement. That dog is the Media. If there is someone better than the public, someone who distinguishes himself, the public sets the dog on him and all the amusement begins. This biting dog tears up his coat-tails, and takes all sort of vulgar liberties with his leg--until the public bores of it all and calls the dog off. That is how the public levels.

Soren Kierkegaard, The Present A

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Henry Moore

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Golda Meir