Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

Angela Davis

We know so well what we are doing ourselves and why we do it, do we not? I fancy that there is some truth in the view which is being put forward nowadays, that it is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

Source Unknown

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Robert Frost

I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.

Adam Lambert

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

Oscar Wilde

Knowing whether or not man is free involves knowing whether he can have a master. The absurdity peculiar to this problem comes from the fact that the very notion that makes the problem of freedom possible also takes away all its meaning. For in the presence of God there is less a problem of freedom than a problem of evil. You know the alternative: either we are not free and God the all-powerful is responsible for evil. Or we are free and responsible but God is not all powerful. All the scholastic subtleties have neither added anything to nor subtracted anything from the acuteness of this paradox.

Albert Camus

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance

Aldous Huxley

Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.

Bertrand Russell

Dear Alec and Magnus,I known we're not really close, but Isabelle just came by to drop off a pleated orange velvet tux that she claims I will be wearing to your wedding. Is this true, and if so, why orange? -Simon

Cassandra Clare

Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

Horace Mann