No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

Kevin Bacon

We especially need imagination in science.

Maria Mitchell

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Emily Dickinson

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.

Sharon M. Draper

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Anne Stevenson

The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another

George Eliot

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.

Voltaire

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

Leonardo da Vinci

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

Russell Baker, "New York Times",

Guys don't want women with good taste, guys want women who taste good.

Sheryl J. Anderson

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or lean all round, more on the false than on the true.

Blaise Pascal