We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

William Congreve

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Mark Twain

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

Norman Vincent Peale

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Thomas Mann

As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.

Stephen King

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.

Isaac Asimov

Consequences are unpitying.

George Eliot

My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.

LeAnn Rimes

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Oscar Wilde

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love.

Andre Maurois

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Irene Mayer Selznick