I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

G. W. F. Hegel

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

General George Patton

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Toni Cade Bambara

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

Sara Blakely

A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!

Richard Dawkins

O brief, bright smile of summer! O days divine and dear The voices of winter's sorrow Already we can hear. And we know that the frosts will find us, And the smiling skies grow rude, While we look in the face of Beauty, And worship her every mood.

Celia Thaxter

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

Sophocles

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

Peter Sotos

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Jeremy Bentham

Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do something humanely, without degrading both the creatures and ourselves, then we should not do it at all.

Matthew Scully, Our companions i

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.

Theodore Roosevelt

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Galileo Galilei