Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

Robert F. Kennedy

It's not sissy to show your feeling.

Princess of Wales Diana

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as a sexual being -- while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up. Normally we don't experience, at least don't want to experience, our sexual fulfillment as distinct from or opposed to our personal fulfillment. But perhaps in part they are distinct, whether we like it or not.

Susan Sontag

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Mark Twain

Thy hue, dear pledge, is pure and bright As in that well-remember'd night When first thy mystic braid was wove, And first my Agnes whisper'd love.

Walter Scott

The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.

Neale Donald Walsch

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Remy de Gourmont

You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning

Bertrand Russell

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.

Ryszard Kapuscinski