The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think...and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.

The more words you know the more clearly and powerfully you will think . . . and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.

Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep –

I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

There's a lot of ways to be honest that don't necessarily involve absolute facts being true. I think that's something I absolutely try to do.

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

If you are fortunate enough to meet such a being then you will really learn selfless giving. You'll see that every second, every moment of their awareness is directed towards others.

Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.

I live for a woman who scratches, just make sure to keep it on the back, baby, I dont like scars." ~Otto Carvalletti