You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest.

Libraries are the future of reading.

If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?

Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.

When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.

If it must be done, it's best done bravely.

Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.

No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.

I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.

Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you — and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.

You could make me say it again, " he whispered. "Make me say it always. Make me say it so often that you never have cause to doubt. I love you.

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

The worst time is always the present.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

In America, We have surrendered our middle class to the whims of foreign countries. We take care of them better than we take care of ourselves.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

If there is effort, there is always accomplishment.

Should I warm the oven and bake you a batch of hero cookies? - Zephyra