Dolly Parton

When I was growing up in the hills of East Tennessee, I knew my dreams would come true. I know there are children in your community with their own dreams. They dream of becoming a doctor or an inventor or a minister. Who knows, maybe there is a little girl whose dream is to be a writer and singer.

The seeds of these dreams are often found in books and the seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world.

Stephen King, "The Green Mile"

Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

Johnny Depp

People cry, not because they're weak, it's because they've been strong for too long.

Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Will you shut up, man?

Martin Luther King, Jr

The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.

You first.

C.S. Lewis, "God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)"

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.

Marcus Aurelius

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

The non-logic of fascism

Taylor Caldwell

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.

Epictetus

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

Lucian of Samosata

Dreams are great magicians.

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

Gaius Valerius Catullus

What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Euripides

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.