"A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself."

“Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.234, Prestwick House Inc

“The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.”

“There was some justice in his pain”

“Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration ... that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.”

Source : Samuel Adams (1906). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

“At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.”

“...you can make little choices that can change the world to be a better, happier, lovelier place every day”

“I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.”

“I’d like to have a nice home set up, with a couple of dogs, and a fence, white picket fence.”