3 December 2020 B. R. Ambedkar A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
3 December 2020 Elton John I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.
3 December 2020 Jim Rohn Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
3 December 2020 Helen Hayes There’s a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I’ll not be parting with that, nor our bed – the four-poster – I’ll be needing that to die in.
3 December 2020 Bell Hooks Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
3 December 2020 Lech Walesa Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
3 December 2020 Michael Shermer Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life’s caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.
3 December 2020 Colleen Atwood Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine’s beauty and Renee’s frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.
3 December 2020 Dweezil Zappa Well, Steve Vai joined my dad’s band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
3 December 2020 Candace Bushnell I know I’m not a wordsmith. And I don’t write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it’s really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
3 December 2020 Rene Descartes The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
3 December 2020 Luc Ferrari I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me – Cecil Taylor is an amazing character… Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.
3 December 2020 Thomas Harrison No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.
3 December 2020 Martha Beck My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.
3 December 2020 Francois Hollande I know where I’m going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet… to live better in five years than we do today.
3 December 2020 Lena Horne I’m not alone, I’m free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don’t have to be a symbol to anybody I don’t have to be a first to anybody.
3 December 2020 Will Rogers So live that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
3 December 2020 Dave Pelzer To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
3 December 2020 Kin Hubbard It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
