As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Jean Genet

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Miss Mary, having been a journalist, had splendid powers of invention. I had never heard her tell a story in the same way twice and always had the feeling she was remolding it for the later editions.

Ernest Hemingway

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.

Cormac McCarthy

However firmly thou holdest to thy opinions, if truth appears on the opposite side, throw down thy arms at once.

John Lancaster Spalding

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Harvey S. Firestone

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords

Samuel Johnson

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Willie Stargell

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.

Mel Brooks, "Newsweek", February

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

Norton Juster