Be not simply good - be good for something.
-Henry David Thoreau
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
-Thomas Hardy
The harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it is.
-Kelly Minter
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
-Eugene O'Neill
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
-Theodore Roosevelt
My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, its seems, begins where yours left off.
-Alexandre Dumas