A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

He looked so lost, so soulful, so lonely. I wanted him to kiss me now. I wanted to let him know I was his for all eternity.

Ellen Schreiber

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Maya Angelou

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Carl Rowan, In American Librarie

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Paul Gauguin

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

Robert Patrick

Time did not compose her.

Jane Austen

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

James Russell Lowell

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

Lin Yutang

Listen to many, speak to a few.

William Shakespeare

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

Austin O'Malley

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

Dan Savage