America is at that awkward stage it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

Henry Miller

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

Andrei Platonov

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.

Veronica Franco

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

Dorothy Parker

Ama me fideliter!Fidem meam noto:De corde totaliterEt ex mente tota,Sum presentialiterAbsens in remota.Lat: Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away.

Carl Orff, Carmina Burana, "Omni

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

Keira Knightley

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

E. B. White

The Holy Spirit can't save saints or seats. If we don't know any non-Christians, how can we introduce them to the Savior?

Paul Little

The bat is gone, but the smile remains.

Willie Stargell

Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.

Susan Kay

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

George E. Woodberry

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Blaise Pascal