In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

Virginia Woolf

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Martin Luther

The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings.

Dan Cook, "The Washington Post",

I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate.

Nanci Griffith

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

Ezra Pound

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb

in the cold you wrap me. in my uncertainty you listen. in all my joys you celebrate. at every turn you meet me with competence and grace. what a fine dance we have together.

Mary Anne Radmacher

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Alfred Adler

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsk

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.

Hjalmar Branting

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

Michelle Williams

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Graham Greene