3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.
3 December 2020 Tryon Edwards Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both.
3 December 2020 Stephen Gardiner The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
3 December 2020 William Shakespeare And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
3 December 2020 Eric McCormack Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like ‘Modern Family,’ but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.
3 December 2020 Omar Bongo When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it’s also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John’s death.
3 December 2020 Jon Landau To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.
3 December 2020 Cate Blanchett If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life – that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment – that would be the perfect state.
3 December 2020 Terry Eagleton The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it’s true, you don’t. You don’t even remember people who disappear.
3 December 2020 Leona Lewis I’d date someone younger or older age doesn’t matter to me. Or looks, really – it’s all about maturity.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
3 December 2020 Amy Grant There’s a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It’s impossible to be mature without having lived.
3 December 2020 Kenneth Starr There is no excuse for perjury – never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.
3 December 2020 Bono Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
3 December 2020 Maggie Q Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children’s children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
3 December 2020 Ed Westwick When I find someone who is worth it, I’ll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.
3 December 2020 Amy Tan I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
3 December 2020 Ruth J. Simmons I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.
