You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

A. Philip Randolph

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views.

Albert Einstein

I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.

Phil Hartman

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Herman Melville

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.

Michael J. Fox

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

Logan Marshall-Green

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Maya Angelou

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.

Alexander Meiklejohn

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

Jos

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

James Russell Lowell

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Napoleon Bonaparte