I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

Home is where my mom is.

Brittany Murphy

You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Donald Knuth

Mistakes are your school of learning therefore forgiveness is your greatest teacher in this school of learning.

Stephen Richards

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...

Martin Luther King Jr.

Here is a field open for talent; and here, merit will a have certain favor, and industry is graced with its due reward.

Claudius

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Sophocles

A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives.

Leo Tolstoy

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

William Blake

....Then he felt quite ashamed, and hid his head under his wing; for he did not know what to do, he was so happy, and yet not at all proud. He had been persecuted and despised for his ugliness, and now he heard them say he was the most beautiful of all the birds. Even the elder-tree bent down its bows into the water before him, and the sun shone warm and bright. He would never became vain or conceited, and would always remembered how it felt to be despised and teased, and he was very sorry for all the creatures who are so treated merely because they are different from those around them. Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart,

Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugl

Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are a number of irrelevant differences. But it is clear that until social expectations for men and women are equal, until we provide equal respect for both sexes, answers to this question will simply reflect our prejudices.

Naomi Weisstein