I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

These people have no religion, neither are they idolaters, but are a very gentle race, without the knowledge of any iniquity; they neither kill, nor steal, nor carry weapons... they have a knowledge that there is a God above, and are firmly persuaded that we have come from heaven.

Christopher Columbus, Journal of

Necessity... the mother of invention.

Plato

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Armistead Maupin

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.

Kim Alexis

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

Joy Page

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

Chuck Barris

Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

Thomas Carlyle

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

James A. Froude

They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

Charles Dickens

We shall listen, not lecture learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

Theodore C. Sorensen

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

Claude Chabrol