Say a prayer for those who are overcome by despair and grief. Light candles of hope for all in their darkness!?

We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de si?cle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way.

Camille Anna Paglia

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.

Alyson Hannigan

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Talib Kweli

That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies they don't say anything they just nod. The nod means 'I am a badass and I recognize that you too are a badass ' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.

Cassandra Clare

The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.

Arthur H. Stainback

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Edmund Burke

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Tom Stoppard

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Bertrand Russell

The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.

Mary Roach

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

James Russell Lowell