"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"English: A language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary."
— James Nicol

"They might not need me; but they might.
I'll let my head be just in sight;
A smile as small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity."
— Emily Dickinson

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
— Margaret Thatcher

"So up I got in anger,
And took a book I had,
And put a ribbon on my hair
To please a passing lad.
And, "One thing there's no getting by --
I've been a wicked girl," said I;
"But if I can't be sorry, why,
I might as well be glad!""
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out."
— David Sedaris (Naked)