...and understand that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

Pete Coors

Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.

Jodi Picoult

Sincerity and truth form the basis of every virtue. Be what thou seemest; live thy creed; Hold up to earth the torch divine; Be what thou prayest to be made; Let the great Master's steps be thine.

Horatius Bonar

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

Michael Phelps

Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.

Patricia Fripp

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Theodor Adorno

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.

Marcel Proust

Set up the listening. Prepare who you are talking to for what you want them to hear. Get people to listen as a possibility rather than a problem.

Mal Pancoast

From Les Miserables:All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been horrible. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom, a dazzling burst of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; women's voices, but voices composed at one and the same time of the pure accents of virgins and the innocent accent of children, -- voices which are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of angels was approaching through the gloom.Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees.They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were; but both of them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that they must kneel.These voices had this strange characteristic, that they did not prevent the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in an uninhabited house. While these voices were singing, Jean Valjean thought of nothing. He no longer beheld the night; he beheld a blue sky. It seemed to him that he felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding.The song died away. It may have lasted a long time. Jean Valjean could not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment.

Victor Hugo

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Karl Marx

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence

Aristotle