"For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity."

“I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone.”

“You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jonathan Davis from Feb 05, 2017

“Long gone is the time when we [blacks] opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come to exalt the new black stereotype above all and demand conformity to that norm.... [However], I assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.”

Source : Clarence Thomas' Speech to the National Bar Association in Memphis, Tennessee, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 28, 1998.

“No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling.”

Source : "TSA bogged down in bureaucracy" by John Mica, www.politico.com. June 28, 2010.

“Success...Is all about being able to extend love to people...not in a big capital-letter sense but in the everyday; little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word”

“I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.”

“It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.”

Source : Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook (1921). “Plays”

“I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.”