That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

Orson Scott Card

...I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you...

John Geddes

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

Andrea Dworkin

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.

Susan Sontag

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Carrie P. Snow

You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you cant fool all of the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Benjamin Franklin

I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.

Ahmet Zappa

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Madame Swetchine

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Rudyard Kipling

Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Lord Greville