"I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman." — Susan B. Anthony, American activist, born 1820
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." — Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, born 1880
"Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding." — Diane Arbus, American photographer, born 1923
"If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic." — Diane Arbus, American photographer, born 1923
"One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying." — Joan of Arc, French saint, born 1412
"Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast." — Joan of Arc, French saint, born 1492
"The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words." — India Arie, American singer, born 1975
"Wherever the poor are heard and respected, the face of God is illuminated." — Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected president, born 1953
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." — Aristotle, Greek philosopher, born 384 BC
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." — Aristotle, Greek philosopher, born 384 BC
"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst." — Aristotle, Greek philosopher, born 384 BC