To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

Gloria Steinem

Faith is never identical with piety.

Karl Barth

I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happening in it, analyzing and thinking. I'm trying to become acquainted with the universe -- with the part of it I occupy -- and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is.as cited by Susan Sackett, author of Inside Trek: A Star Trek Memoir, used with permission

Gene Roddenberry, Starlog Magazi

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

Source Unknown

I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.

Cynthia Nixon

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

Yoko Ono

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

Ted Rall

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

George MacDonald

Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.

Iimani David

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

Katherine F. Gerould

I have come back again to where I belong; not an enchanted place, but the walls are strong.

Dorothy H. Rath

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Douglas William Jerrold