If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

Steven Wright

The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm

Kurt Vonnegut

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

Chrissie Hynde

Murder is terribly exhausting.

Albert Camus

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

Orson Pratt

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

William Pitt

I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Thomas Jefferson

Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

Zadik

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

Jos

I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

Rebecca Lobo

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

Andy Rooney

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson