The quality of your work in the long run is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers its poets and its artists.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth and then we are angry at being undervalued.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

Marriage like money is still with us and like money progressively devalued.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Not life but good life is to be chiefly valued.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian she valued beautification in every area of her life and I try to do the same.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold it would be a merrier world.

Unfortunately the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

It's amazing that this is still news to people but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well and they're made to feel valued they give 110 percent.

Your most precious valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You and you alone can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.