"smiling may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worthwhile." -- herm albright
"the philosophy of one century is common sense to the next." -- henry ward beecher
"without libraries what have we? we have no past and no future." -- ray bradbury
"the young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible--and achieve it, generation after generation." -- pearl s. buck
"life itself is the proper binge." -- julia child
"the difference between reality and fiction? fiction has to make sense" -- tom clancy
"no person was ever honored for what he received. honor has been the reward for what he gave." -- calvin coolidge
"kisses are a better fate than wisdom" -- e.e. cummings
"the kind of beauty i want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within--strength, courage, dignity." -- ruby dee
"i find that for me, for now, transcendence is about being still enough long enough to know when it's time to move on." -- steve earle
"we experienced too much to be uninterested in politics." -- otto frank
"truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is." -- nadine gordimer
"the only sin is mediocrity." -- martha graham
"the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything. every disappointment, every failure, which has accepted the fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for being with each other." -- graham greene
"The implication that there is a statistically ideal fuck which will always result in satisfaction if the right procedures are followed is depressing and misleading." -- germaine greer
"do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed." -- jan de hartog
"once they burn books, they will end up burning people." -- heinrich hein
"we experience moments absolutely free from worry. these brief respites are called panic." -- cullen hightower
"kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve." -- joseph joubert
"any girl can be glamorous. all you have to do is stand still and look stupid." -- heddy lamoarr
"your silence will not protect you." -- audre lourde
"fiat justitia, ruat coelum: let justice be done, though the heavens may fall" -- lord mansfield
"there are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of playthings." -- friedrich nietzsche
"everything starts as somebody's daydream." -- larry niven
"i don't want to end up simply having visted the world." -- mary oliver
"because death is a worm and i am a shiny red apple" -- overheard
"you can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake." -- jeannette rankin
"small use will it be to save democracy for the race if we cannot at the same time save the race for democracy." -- jeannette rankin
"a person can be shot, but an idea cannot. killing is the antithesis of life and negates the very possibility of growing into fullness...a dead enemy cannot become our friend. and - just as certainly - the ideal dies within us when we violate it." -- jeannette rankin
"everything is sweetened by risk." -- alexander smith
"fuck your fascist beauty standards." -- t-shirt poet
"it's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." -- marlene dietrich
"we are tomorrow's past." -- mary webb
"only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. the other half of us is nearly mad. it prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations." -- rebecca west
"to live is the rarest thing in the world. most people exist, that is all." -- oscar wilde