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On the late-afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business. Who is the person walking in front of you on the rain-drenched sidewalk? He is covered with an umbrella, and all you can see is a dark coat and the shoes striking the puddles. And yet this person is the hero of his own life story. He is the love of someone’s life. And what he can do may change the world. Imagine being him for a moment.

And then continue on your own way.

Vera Nazarian

The world is disgracefully managed; one hardly knows to whom to complain.

Ronald Firbank

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

George Orwell

All men think all men mortal but themselves.

Edward Young

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

J. Krishnamurti

I have twenty-one pages, unusable, unprintable, destructive of the book as my mind still partly sees it, contradictory of character and inconsistent in tone. But I am undoubtedly started.

Janet Burroway

Will is the means by which we overcome the problems that life or genes have handed us. Without it, there is no true character.

Jacob Needleman

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

Dorothy Parker

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, “It’s a girl.”

Shirley Chisholm

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Emily Dickinson