My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.-Ruth Bader Ginsburg     Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.-Stephen Covey   The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.-Caroline Kennedy     Independence is happiness.-Susan B. Anthony     I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for…

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.-George Orwell     You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.-Robin Williams   There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.-Gilbert K. Chesterton     Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.-Simone Weil   I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.-Michelangelo   The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau       The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.-Alfred…

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.-Benjamin Disraeli     Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.-Epicurus     Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.-Vaclav Havel     Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.-Emily Dickinson     To live without Hope is to Cease to live.-Fyodor Dostoevsky    …