I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties.

Toba Beta

Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?

Trisha Goddard

The earth is rocky and full of roots it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

Anne Lamott

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Robert Hewison

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

Michael Behe

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Rosa Parks

We're here to put a dent in the universe.

Steve Jobs

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

Martha Beck

The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.

William Shakespeare

My only thrill is self inflicted... hickies.

Rodney Dangerfield

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambara

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Jackie Robinson