Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Barbara Kingsolver

In economics the majority is always wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

John Lennon

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.

Lawrence Durrell

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Kareem AbdulJabbar

There is no eleventh hour with Cosmic Ordering, only the golden hour.

Stephen Richards

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

David Simon

[The Pigeon had learned something about [women] from his eight sisters, and if over the years he had absorbed only this one thing, it would stand as vindication that a boy does not suffer needlessly from growing up in a house with eight sisters. That thing was that a woman's heart is not bought by the currency of a man's emotion for her. A woman's heart is won over by her own feelings for herself when he just happens to be around ...

Brigid Pasulka

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Lillian Hellman, (attributed)

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions.

Kurt Vonnegut

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Vernon Howard