A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.

Demon Pox, oh, Demon PoxJust how is it acquired?One must first go to the bad part of townUntil one is very tiredDemon Pox, oh, Demon PoxI had it all along-No, not the pox, you foolish blocksI meant this very song-For i was right, and you were wrong!

Cassandra Clare

Since ever the world was spinningAnd till the world shall endYou've your man in the beginningOr you have him in the end,But to have him from start to finishAnd neither nor borrow nor lendIs what all of the girls are wantingAnd none of the gods can send

L.M. Montgomery

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

William Arthur Ward

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Voltaire

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

John Ruskin

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

John Dryden

you know someone by what they say about others

camerounian poet

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Gail Sheehy

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

Joel Kinnaman

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Andrea Dworkin

It's not what you go through that makes you strong: it is how you handle the situation that gives you strength.

Tanya R. Liverman