Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Henry Huxley

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

Jodi Picoult

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

Ambrose Bierce

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

George Bernard Shaw

We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.

Lewis Mumford

When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.

Alice Cooper

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Channing Pollock

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.

Lawrence Durrell

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Samuel Johnson