We are only victims if we allow ourselves to be.

I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either.

David Almond

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Garrison Keillor

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

Daniel Greenberg

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

John Walters

Today is a king in disguise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Mahatma Gandhi

´Your man Jesus seems to me a bit of a son of a bitch when it comes to women,´Roland said. ´Was He ever married?´The corners of Callahan´s mouth quirked. ´No´ he said, ´but His girlfriend was a whore.´´Well,´ Roland said, ´that´s a start.´

Stephen King

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Albert Pike

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Pr?s: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past.

Cyril Connolly

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Ingmar Bergman

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

Andre Breton

Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

Daisaku Ikeda