How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

Molly Ivins

As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.

Thomas Jefferson

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business and I wanted to try to reflect that.

John Green

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Clint Eastwood

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Henry Ward Beecher

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Richard D. Rosen

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

John Milton

Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

William Shakespeare

Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.

Jane Austen

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

Sachin Tendulkar

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

Mark Twain