Law is always better than war.

SHE OF NOBODY ELSE'S BIDDING: That is who I am now--someone who has not done what anyone else said since July 2008, though not because I am either disobedient or a slacker.

Margaret Roach

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

Ken Robinson

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Thomas Carlyle

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Blaise Pascal

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

Anne Lamott

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

Tipper Gore

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom

Lord Byron

Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it

Mark Twain

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

Bobby Scott

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

Mark Twain

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Ernest Hemingway