If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Jane Austen

Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Martin Luther

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

James Russell Lowell

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

Walter Winchell

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

Helen Rowland

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

Gary L. Francione

The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.

John Lewis

Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.

Howard Gardner

Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Donald Curtis

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

George Santayana

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

C.S. Lewis