It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

John Millington Synge

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

Thaddeus Golas

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention aand innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's minds, imagine themselves into other people's places.And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.

J.K. Rowling

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

Michelle Obama

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

John Kenneth Galbraith

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.

Stokely Carmichael

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Francis Wright

I don't need faith.

Maurice Sendak

In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.

Henry Clay

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

Hesiod, Works and Days

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.

Pandora Poikilos

Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had, what, a 10-year run?

Kellan Lutz