The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

Language is wine upon the lips

Virginia Woolf

The Thames is liquid history.

John Burns

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

Bertrand Russell

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

Ron Wyden

After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.

Adam Lambert

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Leszczynski Stanislaus

Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.

Marie Curie

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.

Eric Liu

And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dori

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.

Gloria Allred