"Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail,So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger."

“I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.”

Source : "Freshman Rep. Anne Northup Wins GOP Attention with Flair". Interview with Susan Crabtree, www.questia.com. August 25, 1997.

“By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing.”

Source : Sharon M. Draper (2012). “Out of My Mind”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

“...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.”

“Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would have been impossible. Should we say therefore that calculus is bad?”

“You've got to be realistic.”

“Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.”

“If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.”

Source : Donald Hall (2004). “Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected”, p.155, University of Michigan Press