"It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman."
-Alexandre Dumas
"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation." -Herman Melville
"I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear." -Ray Charles