The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

Emma Goldman

We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems.

Jim Hunt

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.

Thomas Mann

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

Jeb Bush

Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.

Laurence Tribe

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

Barry Hannah

It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.

Jill Peterson

Ron's eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of disappearing into his hair.

J.K. Rowling

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Joel A. Barker