"Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you."

"Oliver's Law"

"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'"

"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."

"The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine."

"You have to let people challenge your ideas."

"A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

"By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible."

"To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson."