I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Anne Roiphe

I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Aristotle

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

James Augustine

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

Amy Lowell

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

Mackenzie Phillips

We choose our lovers for their flaws, you know, Mel said. People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

Larry McMurtry

All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it

Samuel Johnson

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Robert Chambers

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

George H. W. Bush

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

George Bernard Shaw