"I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write with moderation.... I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not retreat a single inch -- and I will be heard." - William Lloyd Garrison

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." - David Lloyd George

"Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past.  Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have.  Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well." - A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University

"Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable." - Andre Gide

"Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream." - Sir William Schwenck Gilbert

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." - Andre Gide

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." - Brendan Gill

"I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all." - William Goldman

"Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter." - Oliver Goldsmith

"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed." - Baltasar Gracian

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." - Matt Groening, "Life in Hell"