I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot

Allan Beck

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

John Milton

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Hannah Arendt

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Katherine Mansfield

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

William Hague

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

Olivia Munn

Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be the one, be worthy.

Elsie Chapman

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Kong Fu Zi

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

Daniel Defoe

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Dhammapada

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

Thomas Pynchon