The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

William Congreve

There's some people who do things so bad it tears the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn. They see things, they know things, only they're so good and pure that they don't understand what it is that they're seeing.

Orson Scott Card

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

Jean-Francois Cope

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

Samuel Johnson

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Ruby Dee

Let's create a legal system that can work.

Sam Brownback

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.

Steven Hatfill

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Samuel Pepys

The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools.

Source Unknown

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

Luke Ford

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Frank Robinson, attributed

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Carl Gustav Jung