God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a person's duty to understand the world rather than simply fight for it

Ernest Hemingway

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

William Shakespeare

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

Olivia Williams

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

Edward Hoagland

... the four noble truths: that there is suffering, that it has an origin, that there is a cessation of suffering, and that there is a path to that cessation.

Sid Brown

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Honore de Balzac

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

Paul Harris

Never tell your story to a deaf man.

Proverb

It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love.

Steve Maraboli

You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Karl Lagerfeld

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Norm MacDonald

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

Edward Hoagland