Where there are no women there are no good manners

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Hosea Ballou

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

Oprah Winfrey

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

Maya Lin

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

Gavin Newsom

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

H. L. Mencken

It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.

Paulo Coelho

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

Gary Oldman

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

Patti LuPone

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.

Tori Spelling

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

James Broughton