I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

Shirley Chisholm

'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.

Angie Stone

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.

Laurence Sterne

Stop searching the world for treasure, the real treasure is in yourself.

Pablo

It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

Epictetus

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Edmund Spenser

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Victor Hugo

I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.

Moli

Fight for your life, it's the only one you've go

T.A.Z

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lackof style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give usan impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that.Sometimes, however, a tragedy that possesses artistic elements ofbeauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, thewhole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenlywe find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of theplay. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonderof the spectacle enthralls us.

Oscar Wilde

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

Mason Cooley