I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

Joan Jett

To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.

Dr. Paul Tournier

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory

Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demo

In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science.

Mark Warner

If on the other hand I tell you that to let no day pass without discussing goodness and all the other subjects about which you hear me talking and examining both myself and others is really the very best thing that a man can do, and that life without this sort of examination is not worth living.

Plato

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Alexander Pope

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Anita Brookner

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Coco Chanel

Carve every word before you let it fall.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Henry David Thoreau

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!

Logan P. Smith

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

Martha Plimpton