Every transgression is a game, every grief easy to bear compared with having discovered beauty; it was at once the crime that could never be atoned and the hurt that could never be assuaged, the tear that could never be dried.

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

Frances Farmer

Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

Albert Einstein

If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Frank Crane

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and what is the use of a book thought Alice, without pictures or conversations?

Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventure

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Langston Hughes

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Paul Boese

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. It doesn't mean that they accomplished it or failed, it means that they've given it their best. That's a winner.

Walter Payton

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Tammy Wynette

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Jonathan Swift

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Michael de Montaigne