High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

Richard Masur

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

Henry Miller

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Anatole France

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

Peter Kreeft

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Georges Simenon

Laughter is the sun which drives the winte from the human face.

Victor Hugo

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

Nat King Cole

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

Marian Wright Edelman

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. -An Experiment in Criticism

C.S. Lewis

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

Carl Rowan

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Raymond Hull

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles Dudley Warner