“We always see ourselves as constant, and others as less so, no matter what policy shifts we ourselves may have been guilty of.”

“For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.”

“The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.”

“There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, he [Einstein] said.”

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”

“That world had failed them, because it told them material things were all they’d ever need. It had laid out a life for them instead of letting them choose one for themselves.”

“i was not born with roses in my chest to be afraid of thorns. i was born to bloom in spite of them.”