A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

Jane Austen

The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.

Joseph Lancaster

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

H. L. Mencken

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Orison Swett Marden

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Warren Buffett

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

Jada Pinkett Smith

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

Frank Zappa

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

Victoria Pratt

The last time that I consciously wrote anything to 'save the honor of the Left', as I rather pompously put it, was my little book on the crookedness and cowardice and corruption (to put it no higher) of Clinton. I used leftist categories to measure him, in other words, and to show how idiotic was the belief that he was a liberal's champion. Again, more leftists than you might think were on my side or in my corner, and the book was published by Verso, which is the publishing arm of the . However, if a near-majority of leftists and liberals choose to think that Clinton was the target of a witch-hunt and the victim of 'sexual McCarthyism', an Arkansan Alger Hiss in other words, you become weary of debating on their terms and leave them to make the best of it.

Christopher Hitchens

To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives.

T. Scott McLeod

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Henry David Thoreau

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Mark Twain