Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

Pope John XXIII

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

Sheryl Sandberg

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

Source Unknown

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

Phil Donahue

The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.

Umberto Eco

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Thomas Carlyle

Our job here is not to build a better world...but to do all we can to help make it brighter.

Timothy Pina

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.

George Orwell

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I fear the vermin that shall undermine

Edwin Markham

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

Livy