He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

Josh Billings

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Maya Angelou

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Alexander Dumas

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

Sydney J. Harris

The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.

Kahlil Gibran

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Desmond Tutu

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.

Olive Schreiner

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in all the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

William Westmoreland

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

Jerry Saltz

Do not let your anger lead to hatred, as you will hurt yourself more than you would the other.

Stephen Richards

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Gustave Flaubert