Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Jane Addams

Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.

Deena Metzger

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Josef Stalin, (attributed)

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Thomas Jefferson

I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

Ina Garten

Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.

Diane Kruger

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Charles Mengel Allen

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Serena B. Miller

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Lee Haney

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

Michael McCaul

It is my mood which decides the weather, it is my mood which brings the tiny changes to humankind.

Santosh Kalwar

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Aesop