June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Rabindranath Tagore

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

Chris Patten

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

Source Unknown

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

What would you have me do?

Edmond Rostand

Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.

George Orwell

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

June Jordan

The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.

Leonardo DaVinci, note book