Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

Terry Goodkind

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...

E.E. Cummings

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Source Unknown

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

Marilyn vos Savant

This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

Jodi Picoult

I never thought a role model should be negative.

Michael Jordan

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Confucius

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

Herbert V. Prochnow

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.

A. L. Rowse

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

Mason Cooley

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

Simone Weil

Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

Jennifer Donnelly