Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

...as far as we are capable of knowledge we sin in neglecting to acquire it...

People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.

... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

When you’re different you’ve got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.