Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Thomas Jefferson

You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it fearlessly.

Steve Maraboli

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue

Natalie Clifford Barney

No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime Let out all the length of all the reins.

Mary Cholmondeley

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Mark Twain

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

Liz Smith

You can't cheat kids. If you cheat them when they're children they'll make you pay when they're sixteen or seventeen by revolting against you or hating you or all those so-called teenage problems. I think that's finally when they're old enough to stand up to you and say, 'What a hypocrite you've been all this time. You've never given me what I really wanted, which is you'.

John Lennon

You've got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.

Tilman J. Fertitta

[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let alone that the said planet was in orbit in a minor and obscure solar system, which was also on the edge of an unimaginably vast cosmos that was exploding away from its original source of energy. We did not know that micro-organisms were so powerful and lived in our digestive systems in order to enable us to live, as well as mounting lethal attacks on us as parasites. We did not know of our close kinship with other animals. We believed that sprites, imps, demons, and djinns were hovering in the air about us. We imagined that thunder and lightning were portentous. It has taken us a long time to shrug off this heavy coat of ignorance and fear, and every time we do there are self-interested forces who want to compel us to put it back on again.

Christopher Hitchens

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

Suzanne Finnamore

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

George Eliot

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

Jack Benny