America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.

Germaine Greer

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

Joseph Addison

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

Bruce Lee

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

Henry David Thoreau

I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations.

George Saunders

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

Giovani della Casa

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

Thomas C. Haliburton

No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Anne Lamott

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

Henry David Thoreau

And therefore is the outward beauty a true sign of the inward goodness, and in bodies this comeliness is imprinted, more and less, as it were, for a mark of the soul, whereby she is outwardly known; as in trees, in which the beauty of the buds giveth a testimony of the goodness of the fruit.

Thomas Hoby

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice

Mark Twain