It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie, An Autobiograph

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Ernest Hemingway

I'm tired of being crushed by the weight of men that believe in nothing, I have to change that.

Jackson Teller Sons of Anarchy

I certainly do not consider myself permanently dedicated to a crusade for peace and I am beginning to see the uselessness and absurdity of getting too involved in a 'peace movement.' The chief reason why I have spoken out was that I felt I owed it to my conscience to do so. There are certain things that have to be clearly stated. I had in mind particularly the danger arising from the fact that some of the most belligerent people in this country are Christians, on the one hand fundamentalist Protestants and on the other certain Catholics. They both tend to appeal to the bomb to do a 'holy' work of destruction in the name of Christ and Christian truth. This is completely intolerable and the truth has to be stated. I cannot in conscience remain indifferent.

Thomas Merton, letter to Czeslaw

In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was born of an ancient fervor. Every rule ever established, from the beginning of time, invited mutiny.

Robin Jones Gunn

I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

Megawati Sukarnoputri

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon,

The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Samuel Smiles

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

Les Brown

It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

Edward Hoagland

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates