We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

George Bernard Shaw

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

Freeman Dyson

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Hermann Broch

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

Omar Sharif

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

Frank Crane, Essays

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle

And after all, what is a lie?

Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Don

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Milan Kundera

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

Dag Hammarskjold, Markings: Diar

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Charles Darwin

Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.

Jordana Brewster

We have been cut off from our souls in the West, and because romantic love has become our religion, we think we can find fulfillment through this extraordinary and powerful force that draws us into an illusion of permanence. Passion makes us feel alive, makes us sing, makes us feel in touch with something powerful and wonderful, just as it would if we followed this meaning in life in a more spiritual practice. In the West it is often through such relationships, through another human being, that we search desperately for something, not knowing it is to be found within ourselves.

Sarah Bartlett