Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Tertullian

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

Andrea Dworkin

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Abraham Lincoln

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Danny Mcgoorty

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Franz Liszt

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Benjamin Carson

The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

Glenda Jackson

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

Hank Azaria

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man

Friedrich Nietzsche

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

Bobby Scott