Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

Belle Boyd

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

Tom Hanks

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Ted Turner

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I think that this industry in particular is so fast-paced that you keep saying, 'I'll take vacation later.' Sometimes later never comes. I'm definitely leading a much slower life now that I'm not working every single day on a television series.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.

Carmen Sylva

Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing... then it will be done, but not until then.

Spike Lee

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.

Eugene Delacroix

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dr. James Dobson

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

Thomas Carlyle

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley