The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Confucius

I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

Hope Solo

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

A. J. Muste

Children love their parents. Eventually they come to judge them. Rarely do they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

Arthur Henderson

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Oscar Wilde

God in his wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

Ogden Nash

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

W. Somerset Maugham

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

Roy Orbison

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Bertrand Russell

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Rebecca West

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

James Wolcott