all the quotes used
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
Gloria Steinem
The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed.
William Gibson
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
Margaret Thatcher
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Cicero
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope
There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
Juan Montalvo
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George Carlin
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
Mikhail Gorbachev
You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.
Vicomte de Chateaubriand
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should've been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely fool-proof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
Life is something to do when you can't sleep.
Fran Lebowitz
Whining is anger through a small opening.
Al Franken
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself.
Gotthold Lessing
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My brains don't fall out of my ass when I'm naked.
Kristine Lefebvre
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
Katherine Whitehorn
Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.
Dennis Miller
It's amazing how long it takes to complete something you're not working on.
R. D. Clyde
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
The secret of joy in work can be contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F Kennedy
There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
Edna Ferber
