We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
-Winston S. Churchill
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
-Abraham Maslow
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-Alexander Pope
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou