"Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true."

--Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune." 

--Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it."

Norman Schwarzkopf, American General, Oct 12, 2018

"If you want peace, work for justice."

--Pope Paul VI, at the 1972 Celebration of the Day of Peace

"I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it."

--Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

"All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction."

--Steve Almond

September 11, 2020

"Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11."

--Barack Obama

"If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete."

--Buddha

"The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are stronger at the broken places."

-Ernest Hemingway (committed suicide in 1961.)

"Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat."

--Ann Landers