Let the dream go. Are there not other dreamsIn vastness of clouds hid from thy sightThat yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams,And shoot the shadows through and through with light?What matters one lost vision of the night?Let the dream go! ...

The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.

Terry Pratchett

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

Beth Ditto

A little learning is a dangerous thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,And drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope, Essay on Critici

People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.

Harry S Truman

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

Melissa Etheridge

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring, roaring, diving. And then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Virginia Woolf

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Marilyn Monroe

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Samuel Johnson

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Gerald Brenan

Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Pablo Picasso

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Marcus Tullius Cicero