Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The man for whom law exists the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.

Henry David Thoreau

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Ezra Pound

We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.

Thornton Wilder

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

Ani DiFranco

To the brave and the faithful, nothing is impossible.

Anonymous

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

Kahlil Gibran

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Sometimes Alton Darwin would talk to me about the planet he was on before he was transported in a steel box to Athena. 'Drugs were food,' he said. 'I was in the food business. Just because people on one planet eat a certain kind of food they're hungry for, that makes them feel better after they eat it, that doesn't mean people on other planets shouldn't eat something else. On some planets I'm sure there are people who eat stones, and then feel wonderful for a little while afterwords. Then it's time to eat stones again.

Kurt Vonnegut

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

Monica Seles

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Dorothy Bernard

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides