....it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

Mickey Rooney

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.

Thomas De Quincey

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Bede Griffiths

Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.

Etta James

Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.

Mitch Hedberg

Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not.

Arnold Beisser

We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

Aldo Leopold

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Zora Neale Hurston

With thee conversing I forget all time.

John Milton

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

John Wooden

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

Martha Beck