There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good. – H. L. Mencken

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr.