It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight...

Ella Baker, Cited in The Black W

Your overnight success story is always a result of everything you have done in your life until that moment.

Bel Pesce

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

Edward Dahlberg

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

John Irving

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

John Pierpont Morgan

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Queen Elizabeth II

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Abraham Lincoln

The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.

Dick Cheney

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Socrates

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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