I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nature has no originality--I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has a superb and amazing and infinitely varied equipment of old ones, but she never adds to them. She repeats--repeats--repeats--repeats. Examine your memory and your experience; you will find it is true.

Mark Twain

Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

Abraham Lincoln

We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.

Charles A. Reich

More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

Simon Mainwaring

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man

Kahlil Gibran

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Henri Bergson

Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself.

Italian Proverb

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

Emanuel Celler

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

Angela Davis

He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him.~ Stephen speaking of Rachael

Charles Dickens