The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

Henry Ward Beecher

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

Lenny Kravitz

Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity.

Medard Boss

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Washington Irving

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.

Wallace Rice

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.

Elizabeth Berkley

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.

Dan Rather

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.

Mark Twain

Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Abraham Lincoln

A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

Theodore L. Cuyler