As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

Life is our dictionary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.

Charles Horton Cooley

Shall we never have done with that cliche, so stupid that it could only be human, about the sympathy of animals for man when he is unhappy? Animals love happiness almost as much as we do. A fit of crying disturbs them, they'll sometimes imitate sobbing, and for a moment they'll reflect our sadness. But they flee unhappiness as they flee fever, and I believe that in the long run they are capable of boycotting it.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Charles Lamb

Usually, if you think something's wrong, it probably is...

Jayce O'Neal

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

Elizabeth Gilbert

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.

J. August Strindberg

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

Vera Farmiga

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

Bertrand Russell

In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.

Norodom Sihamoni

Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

Robert Orben