3 December 2020 May Sarton Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
3 December 2020 Bernie Sanders If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.
3 December 2020 Laura Linney I had learning disabilities, and I couldn’t express myself in the written word.
3 December 2020 Thom Yorke Music is more difficult – try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
3 December 2020 Thomas Merton Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.
3 December 2020 Betty White I think it’s your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that’s a waste of a lovely life. ‘Oh… I’m 30, oh, I’m 40, oh, 50.’ Make the most of it.
3 December 2020 Julie Andrews All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland It’s very strange that most people don’t care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
3 December 2020 Joaquin Phoenix The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I’m trying to rectify my wrongs.
3 December 2020 David Brin There’s no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
3 December 2020 Suzy Bogguss I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.
3 December 2020 William James Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
3 December 2020 Irving Howe The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
3 December 2020 Lewis Thomas Much of today’s public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.
3 December 2020 Stevie Nicks Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don’t want to go to PTA meetings.
3 December 2020 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
3 December 2020 Maria Callas An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera house.
3 December 2020 Thom Gunn It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the ’50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
3 December 2020 Andre Breton Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
3 December 2020 Mark Feuerstein The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John’s Pizzeria.
3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
3 December 2020 David Cameron The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.
3 December 2020 Joseph Ratzinger We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
