Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

George J. Mitchell

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

Geoffrey Rush

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only.

Thomas Carlyle

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

Randy Harrison

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

W. S. Gilbert

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

Benjamin Franklin

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

Ted Lindsay

Die Männer heiraten, weil sie müde sind, die Frauen, weil sie neugierig sind. Beide werden enttäuscht.

Oscar Wilde

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

Henry David Thoreau