I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

David Guterson

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Franz Grillparzer

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

John Ruskin

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder

Lew Wallace

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Abigail Adams

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Mary Webb

What would you have me do?

Edmond Rostand

Communism didn't fall. It was pushed.

George Herbert Walker Bush, July

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.

Frank Ocean

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

Emma Goldman

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

Morgan Freeman