It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?

Mercedes Lackey

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Mahatma Gandhi

You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

Danny Boyle

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

Ramsey Clark

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

Brad Pitt

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

George Washington

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The society of girls is a very delightful thing, Copperfield. It's not professional, but it's very delightful.

Charles Dickens

The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.

Robert Browning

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

Henry David Thoreau

I make rude gestures at nuns

Cassandra Clare

I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.

Ashley Tisdale