We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose.

Teachers should be made aware of visual stress symptoms and the potential difference coloured lights, overlays and lenses could make to a learners perception.

Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?

We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all.

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.

Cooling bodies gravitate and heat as they gravitate-heating bodies radiate, and cool as they radiate.