I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

Guy Finley

We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.

Andrew Weil

Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall without getting lost once.

J.K. Rowling

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein

I took the stars from my eyes, and then I made a map and knew that somehow I could find my way back. Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too, so I stayed in the darkness with you.

Florence and the Machine

Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.

Kim Cattrall, Interview by Dan S

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Harold MacMillan

-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it

Elizabeth Kostova

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Emile M. Cioran

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

John Lahr

Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one's own

Mahatma Gandhi

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful -- and neglected -- secret to success and happiness.

Percy Ross