To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Oliver Cromwell

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

Malcolm X

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

Sidney Greenberg

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

Miuccia Prada

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

English Proverb

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never -- I repeat -- never under any conditions face the facts.

Ruth Gordon

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast,Full of sad experience, moving toward the stillness of his rest.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Locksley H

Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?

Lisa Edelstein

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Bill Maher

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

Gustave Flaubert

Two is not greater than three, even for extremely large values of two.

jeffrey lemkin

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb