When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Rosa Parks

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Sc

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Les Brown

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

John Holt

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, part 2

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Don DeLillo

I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.

Wentworth Miller

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.

Josh McDowell

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Francis Bacon

I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe.

Louis Farrakhan

Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.

Bible

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

Lil Wayne