"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
~ Hellen Keller

"We are all of us living in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
~ Chrissie Hynde

"Love is the distance between reality and pain."
~ Robyn Hitchcock

"There is no light so fair or so bright to cast upon the darkened sky as a ray of purity"
~ Elaine Barbieri

"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing."
~ Thomas Jefferson

“The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation”
~Pierre Elliott Trudeau

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
~ Douglas Everett

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.”
~Harvey Fierstein

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth”
~Benjamin Disraeli

“Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness”
~Shakti Gawain

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
~Agnes Repplier

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
~Elisabeth Foley

“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
~George Santayana

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.”
~Diana Cortes
“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”

~David Carradine

“An affair is a symptom of a couple’s problems, not a competition.”
~Ellie Tesher

“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
~Albert Einstein

“Men willingly believe what they wish.”
~Julius Caesar

“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.”
~Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
~Margaret Thatcher

“The opinion of the majority is not the final proof of what is right."
~Schiller

"On Earth There Is No Heaven, But There Are Pieces Of It"
~Jules Renard

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always."
~Mahatma Gandhi

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
~Mahatma Gandhi

"Peace is its own reward."
~Mahatma Gandhi

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
~Mahatma Gandhi

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
~Mahatma Gandhi

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche