True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life.

It wasn't somebody big and strong that helped me. No. It was somebody weak that needed me.

Yossi Ghinsberg

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

J. C. (James Cash) Penney

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

Patty Smith

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.

Gregory Nunn

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely right. If you've made up your mind you can't do something, you're absolutely right.

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The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. . . The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: that is the hyperreal

Jean Baudrillard

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Dalai Lama

When I'm doing a film, I love getting together after work with my costars. But we get back to L.A. and I'm like, 'I don't want to go to a club with you, dude. I mean, I think you're rad, and if you want to come play Scrabble with me, that's amazing.'

Ginnifer Goodwin

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

Dennis Prager

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

Jim Palmer

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

William Feather

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

Georges Bernanos