To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
Jackie Kennedy

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
Jackie Kennedy

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Lord Byron

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Lord Byron

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Lord Byron

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
Lord Byron

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Soren Kierkegaard

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Soren Kierkegaard

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
Soren Kierkegaard

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren Kierkegaard

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
Oprah Winfrey

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
Oprah Winfrey

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Swami Vivekananda