At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

Helen Keller

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

George Farquhar

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

C.S. Lewis

Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.

Joe Namath

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

Janet Fitch

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

Christine Gregoire

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Kahlil Gibran

Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Michelle Obama

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracian

Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.

Jane Austen

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

Francis John McConnell