Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why.

Lloyd deMause

If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Albert Einstein

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

Rita Mae Brown

On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

Eberhard Weber

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

Donna Rice

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

Blake Shelton

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Marian Wright Edleman

It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

Richard Braunstein

We have no commission from God to police the world.

Benjamin Harrison

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

Horace

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Peace Pilgrim