• "Boys bullying girls is a step backward. But girls bullying boys, now that's the future."
• People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou, poet and actress
• “Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.” - Mark Twain, highly quoted writer
• “You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.” - Anonymous
• “I am involved in all of mankind.” - John Donne, 16th century poet
• Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." J.G.
• He always smiled, and he always chuckled, but inside he did not notice anyone, did not care; it was his body that smiled, nodded and shook hands. Nothing touched his mind, which remained remote.

— Philip K Dick, Ubik

• ”Here I disclaim all my paternal care, / Propinquity and property of blood!”
• ”There was good sport at his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged.”

Gloucester

• Draw lines many lines, from memory or from life. Jean Augurte
• The nude is not the same as the undressed, and nothing is less nude than a woman emerging from a pair of drawers or one who has just taken
• What is the relationship between power and the act of looking or being looked at? Who has the right to look awkward now is looking ligitimated and culturally dead? And crucially dead
• If everyone would convince themselves they live in a fair world they know it isn't, it would be.
• "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

- Paul Dirac (1902-1984)

• "The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."

- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

• "To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, this is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, that is a mental sickness." - Lao Tzu (14-09 604 B.C. - ), "Tao Te Ching
• Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. Colossians 4:6
• Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know." - Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense
• The courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart. Henry Clay
• From compromise and things half done; Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, Keep me still unsatisfied. Louis Untermeyer
• My shoes are too tight, but it doesn't matter, because I have forgotten how to dance.
• The innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do, and the guilty lie because they don't have any other choice.
• The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
• The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between.
• See, in the last few years, we've stumbled. […] And when you stumble a lot, you… you start looking at your feet. Well, we have to make people… lift their eyes back to the horizon, and see the line of ancestors behind us, saying, "Make my life have meaning." And to our inheritors before us, saying, "Create the world we will live in." I mean, w-we're not just… holding jobs and having dinner. We are in the process of building the future.
• No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
• The kind of revelation that transforms your mind, your soul, your heart—even your flesh—so that you are a new creature, reborn in the instant of understanding.
• The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation.
• Faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we cannot continue, that the whole of our lives is without meaning.
• Every great fall begins with a single mistake.
• There are moments when we all become someone else, something other than what we are.
• People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
• In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. Charlie Brown
• The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
• If a man Speaks his mind in a forest and no woman hears him is he still wrong?
• “People say lakes that are too clean don’t have much fish”
• “Curiosity is the basis of education…I say only that the cat died nobly