Anything you do to help better humanity is never a waste of time~Nor is done in vain! Keep your work up...keep moving forward! Your beaming lights will always help make things brighter for all!?

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

Rita Dove

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

Louise Slaughter

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Thomas Crum

A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.

George Gribbon

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau

Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

Charles Evans Hughes

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

George Eliot

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

Jawaharlal Nehru

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

Suzanne Collins

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Madame de Maintenon

molesting the vampire while he's too weak to fight back, iz? jace asked. i'm pretty sure that violates at least one of the accords.

Cassandra Clare