The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

George Farquhar

They would say, he answered, that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

C. S. Lewis

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

H. T. Leslie

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

Jerry Saltz

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

Randall Terry

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am rather inclined to silence.

Abraham Lincoln

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Steven Pinker

Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.

Albert Einstein

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

Tim Gunn

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

Benjamin Franklin

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.

Pliny the Elder