It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. – W. Somerset Maugham
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. – Florence Nightingale
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction. – John Boyd Orr
Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but its common and they dont even notice. – Anthony Weiner