"Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour."

“America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it's still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?”

“One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts.”

“Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.”

“Tears were a blessing; they were a relief; they did wash the ache from the heart, ease brain strain, and encourage the soul.”

Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (1923). “The White Flag”

“All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.”

“The world exists for the sake of kindness.”

“Darkness at Blacklands is scary.”

Source : Marianne Curley (2012). “Old Magic”, p.141, A&C Black

“What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity.”