We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Mother Jones

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Luis Bunuel

Before honor is humility.

Bible

When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.

Cathy McMorris

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Confucius

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

Roberto Cavalli

In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.

Will Wright

Dream delivers us to dream and there is no end to illusion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love rules the world. Like a tyrant.?

Jarod Kintz

We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.

Orson Scott Card

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

Michelle Bachelet

...There are bad novels and good novels, as there are bad pictures and good pictures; but that is the only distinction in which I see any meaning... When one says picture, one says of character, when one says novel, one says of incident, and the terms may be transposed. What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?... It is an incident for a woman to stand up with her hand resting on a table and look out at you in a certain way; or if it be not an incident, I think it will be hard to say what it is. At the same time it is an expression of character. If you say you don't see it (character in that

Henry James, The Art of Fiction,