Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

Truman Capote

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Pablo Picasso

No man's credit is as good as his money.

John Dewey

Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

Tony Campolo

It-was a tiny mollusc that caused Walter, grandfather of the greatest biologist of the twentieth century, to forge a brief link with the greatest biologist of the nineteenth: Charles Darwin. . . . . . We know this because later that day he wrote hesitantly to Darwin to report what he had found.

Matt Ridley, Francis Crick: Disc

I remember, my mom didn't have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we'd just go down to the neighbors' and she'd give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren't any latchkey kids.

Jennifer Garner

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Marilyn Monroe

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

Bob Ney

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

Jean Toomer

Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done.

R.P.T. (Robert Peter Tristram) C

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Virginia Woolf