All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

George Orwell

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Karl Marx

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

E. V. Lucas

Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.

Kate Middleton

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; . . . that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Edwin H. Land

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

Kate Millett

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear

William Shakespeare

When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.

William Shakespeare

I have nothing to add.

Charlie Munger

I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.

Jonathan Franzen

I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

Janet Evanovich