Compromise, hell! ... If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Alison Lurie

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

Diana Rankin

The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.

Elizabeth Scott

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle

Abraham Lincoln

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Jeremy Collier

Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene -- nine-tenths of it!

Henry Miller

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

S. E. Hinton

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

Samuel Johnson

My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by, with thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye!

Caroline Norton

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

John Sterling

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing, but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain