Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Orison Swett Marden

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

Jessamyn West

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Pearl Buck

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

Aisha Tyler

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

George J. Mitchell

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

Martin Luther King Jr.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on I am not too sure.

H. L. Mencken

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Jerry Gillies

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

Voltaire

HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose

Ken Blanchard

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudner