God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

Sonia Sotomayor

I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy, Mr. Roper, it is that best part of our souls that we break off and give each other, and God has a special dispensation for it, angels to guard its making and its preservation. -said by Katherine Darnell in Chasing Shakespeares, by Sarah Smith

Sarah Smith

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.

Freya Stark

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Tom Peters

Music is only love looking for words.

Lawrence Durrell

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

John Waters

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.

Leonard Cohen

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Harry S. Truman

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Edward Phelps

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

Stephen Leacock