Speech emanating from a pure heart and mind of learned men and scholars are naturally pure just like water of a river.
—The Vedas (Sacred Books of Hinduism)
Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.
—Carrie Fisher (American Actress)
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
—Eric Hoffer (American Philosopher)
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
—Daniel O’Connell (Irish Statesman)
Economic independence doesn’t set anyone free. Or it shouldn’t, for the higher up you go, the more responsibilities become yours.
—Bernard F. Gimbel (American Businessman)
Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.
—T. Harv Eker (American Motivational Speaker)
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
—Anna Pavlova (Russian Ballerina)
We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.
—Martin Luther King III (American Human Rights Advocate)
My bad habits aren’t my title, my strengths and talents are my title.
—Layne Staley (American Musician)
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
—Maximilien Robespierre (French Revolutionary)
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
—Agnes de Mille (American Dancer)
To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force… Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
—Hypatia of Alexandria (Greek Philosopher, Mathematician)
Freedom is no heritage. Preservation of freedom is a fresh challenge and a fresh conquest for each generation. It is based on the religious concept of the dignity of man. The discovery that man is free is the greatest discovery of the ages.
—C. Donald Dallas (American Industrialist)