"Never make excuses for someone who disrespects you-who they are or what they do isn't a pass to treat you like trash!"

“How many times can a heart be broken before it is beyond mend?”

“There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.”

“Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.”

“Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.”

“Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.”

Source : Grace Abbott, Judith Sealander (2015). “The Grace Abbott Reader”, p.92, U of Nebraska Press

“Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.”

“If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.”

“Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dinesh D'Souza from Apr 11, 2014