Quotations

"There is a difference between passive goodness and active goodness, which is, in my opinion, the giving of one’s time and energy in the alleviation of pain and suffering. It entails going out, finding and helping those in suffering and danger, and not merely in leading an exemplary life, in a purely passive way of doing no wrong."

— Nicholas Winton, English humanitarian, born 1909

"Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight."

— Naomi Wolf, American author, born 1962

"A mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually vaccinates her daughter against low self-esteem."

— Naomi Wolf, American author, born 1962

"If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar stud that has rolled under the dressing table."

— W. Beran Wolfe, Viennese born psychiatrist, born 1900

"With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love comes despite ourselves; and then, if we have not already done so, we have the task of becoming our selves so we may welcome love."

— Diane Wolkstein, American folklorist, born 1942

"It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organized dust–ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable."

— Mary Wollstonecraft, English writer, born 1759

"There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see."

— Stevie Wonder, American singer, born 1950

"I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men."

— Beatrice Wood, American potter, born 1893

"I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me to go after young men and plan grabbing husbands from my girlfriends. Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life."

— Beatrice Wood, American potter, born 1893

"Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay."

— Grant Wood, American painter, born 1891

"All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow."

— Grant Wood, American painter, born 1891

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

— John Wooden, American basketball player, born 1910

"The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols."

— James Woods, American actor, born 1947

"It will always be the ball and me."

— Tiger Woods, American golfer, born 1975