There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

Joe Dante

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, 19

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

Eric Liu

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Sallust

Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health - I don't abuse it.

Betty White

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Andrew Carnegie

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.

John Foster Dulles

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...

Walter Mosley

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Emily Dickinson

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

W. H. Auden

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Eugene W. Smith

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Marian Anderson