Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.

Victor Hugo

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Christopher Hitchens

There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.

Jim Rohn

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

Jodi Picoult

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

Carol Moseley Braun

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

Johann von Goethe

It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.

Frank Carson

When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

Lauryn Hill

That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.

Kathryn Stockett

Death always comes too early or too late.

English Proverb

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

Kim Cattrall