Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

Nothing releases like forgive. Nothing renews like forget.

Ray Davis

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

Mary Garden

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Harriet Tubman

The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir.

John L. Mason

Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities [Michael Moore].

Christopher Hitchens

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

Clyde Tombaugh

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

Thor Heyerdahl

Show me what I have to do, Every hour my strength renew; Let me live a life of faith, Let me die Thy people's death.

John Newton

Nature is not human hearted.

Lao Tzu

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Phyllis Diller

I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.

Oliver Reed

A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

Jack Hanna