Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

Voltaire

One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.

Tom Felton

Suffering often draws us closer to God. Instead of being a sign of God's punishment or distance, suffering can purify us, lead us into the heart of God, and transform our souls.

Allen R. Hunt

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Michel de Montaigne

On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be. ~ 14th Dalai Lama in his talk to the Society for Neuroscience in 2005 in Washington.

Dalai Lama XIV

He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.

Kahlil Gibran

Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

Alanis Morissette

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

Aristotle

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Roberto Assagioli

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Max Beerbohm

Unhurt people are not much good in the world.

Enid Starkie