It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Friedrich von Schiller

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Horace Greeley

We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a moment is room wide enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outlash of a murderous thought and the sharp bakcward stroke of repetance.

George Eliot

I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.

Steve Blake

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Josh Billings

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Walt Disney

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

Albert Einstein

I respect music, I do. I love it.

Youssou N'Dour

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

Eddie Vedder

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

George Tenet

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

Cassandra Clare

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson