I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Jane Addams

Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

Neil Gaiman

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I know a lot of gay males who I work with that are fantastic people and I love hanging out with them. But because I hang out and bring gay men into my life, does that mean that I'm gay? I promise you that I very much love women.

Ryan Seacrest

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.

Syesha Mercado

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

Robert Jordan

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

David Attenborough

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

Warren Farrell

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

John Lubbock

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Richard M. Nixon