I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.

Scott Nearing

The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

Susan Wittig Albert

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Kingsley

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

Shelley Berman

I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind

William Shakespeare

Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful.

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Life without the courage for death is slavery

Seneca

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.

Roger Wicker

All art is immoral.

Oscar Wilde

The acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching, and will give us experience for the attack of Halifax the next, and the final expulsion of England from the American continent.

Thomas Jefferson