To be a person is to have a story to tell.

Jokes are grievances.

Marshall McLuhan

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Mahatma Gandhi

When a man had deserved his good luck, it was the part of his neighbors to wish him joy.

George Eliot

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.

Ron Rash

Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.

Wilder Penfield

The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it.

Clarence Darrow

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.

Maria Montessori

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

Jessica Savitch

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction

Ronald Reagan

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

Loni Anderson