Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

C.S. Lewis

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Arthur Ashe

It is one of those stories that you just want to keep going and going - even after the last page has been reached. Kristie Leigh Maguire

Vicki M. Taylor

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

Laurell K. Hamilton

For whatever we lose (a you or a me)It's always ourselves we find in the sea.

E.E. Cummings

O, het is met de verte als met de toekomst! Een wijd, schemerachtig vergezicht ligt voor ons, onze ziel en onze ogen drinken het in, en wij haken ernaar ons er helemaal aan over te geven, om in alle gelukzaligheid van één groot, heerlijk gevoel te zijn vervuld. Maar och, als we erop afvliegen, dan is alles zoals tevoren en staan wij in onze armoede, in onze beperktheid, en onze ziel dorst naar ontglipte lafenis.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

William Hazlitt

But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous individualism, my lawlessness. No word in my vocabulary expressed deeper hatred than the word INTERFERENCE. But Christianity placed at the centre what then seemed to me a transcendental Interferer. If its picture were true then no sort of 'treaty with reality' could ever be possible. There was no region even in the innermost depth of one's soul (nay, there least of all) which one could surround with a barbed wire fence and guard with a notice No Admittance. And that was what I wanted; some area, however small, of which I could say to all other beings, 'This is my business and mine only.

C.S. Lewis

Trust me, sunscreen is so, so, so important and so I always wear sunscreen, but I still get really tan.

Lea Michele

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

Michael Card

If a task has once begun. Never leave it till it's done. Be the labor great or small. Do it well or not at all.

Anon.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Elbert Hubbard