Steve Jobs:

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Bruxy Cavey:

When sinful, broken, hurting people are pleasantly surprised at how accepting we are, and religious people are outraged at how accepting we are, there's a good chance we're starting to live like Jesus.

The End of Religion

Hugh MacLeod:

All great marketing breakthroughs are evolutions of language.

Evil Plans, p. 99

Sarah Schulman:

Human beings have the profound duty to intervene when someone else is being victimized, especially if that person asks them to.

Ties That Bind, p. 170

Martin Luther King Jr.:

The church at times has preserved that which is immoral and unethical.  Called to combat social evils, it has remained silent behind stained-glass windows....  How often the church has been an echo rather than a voice, a taillight behind the Supreme Court rather than a headlight guiding men progressively and decisively to higher levels of understanding.

Yashar Ali:

Those who engage in gaslighting create a reaction -- whether it's anger, frustration, sadness -- in the person they are dealing with. Then, when that person reacts, the gaslighter makes them feel uncomfortable and insecure by behaving as if their feelings aren't rational or normal.

"A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not 'Crazy'"

Frank Schaeffer:

Believing in invisible things breeds an inferiority complex among people competing with science for hearts and minds.

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 33

Barbra Streisand:

A man is commanding, a woman is demanding.  A man is forceful, a woman is pushy.  A man is a perfectionist, a woman is a pain in the ass.

Hugh MacLeod:

How do you get your stuff on the radar screen of "The Twenty"?  By creating brilliant stuff.  By creating brilliant stuff that "speaks" to the market in a way it has never been spoken to before.  If your stuff is different enough that it changes "the conversation" of your market for the better, other folk will notice, even the Big Boys.  "Improve the conversation by improving the language." 

Evil Plans, p. 99

Tonetta Landis:

Accept the reality that all oppression is connected and all forms of injustice reinforce one another.

From "Battle Hymn: A Queer Christian's Guide to More Than Survival"

Sarah Schulman:

Does anyone ever refuse to consider a manuscript because they have too many heterosexual books in the pipeline?

Ties That Bind, p. 162

Erskine Caldwell:

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis.  He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a storyteller.