Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

Ursula K. LeGuin

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Hector Berlioz

You can't eat compliments.

Charles Monroe Schulz, (Snoopy)

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Thomas Carlyle

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell

The great hope of society is in individual character.

William Ellery Channing

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Madame Chiang KaiShek

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.

George H. Lonmer

Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.

Ellen Pompeo

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

Archibald MacLeish

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

Charley Pride

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

George Santayana