Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

One farmer says to me, You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

Henry David Thoreau

Trust me, sunscreen is so, so, so important and so I always wear sunscreen, but I still get really tan.

Lea Michele

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.

Anna Quindlen

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Ray Bradbury

Thus to the Lord doth Asha, the Truth, reply: No guide is known who can shelter the world from woe, None who knows what moves and works Thy lofty plans.

Zoroaster

I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.

Alicia Keys

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

Cynthia McKinney

A busy mother makes slothful daughters.

Proverb

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

Groucho Marx

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

Bob Etheridge

Never, never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill