The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words. You have repeated and shifting pains, incurable pains, pains beyond imagining, pains which are neither of the body nor of the soul, but which partake of both. And I share your suffering, and I ask you: who dares to ration our relief? We are not going to kill ourselves just yet. In the meantime, leave us the hell alone.

Antonin Artaud

If you're teaching a class, you can think about the elementary things that you know very well. These things are kind of fun and delightful. It doesn't do any harm to think them over again. Is there a better way to present them? The elementary things are easy to think about; if you can't think of a new thought, no harm done; what you thought about it before is good enough for the class. If you do think of something new, you're rather pleased that you have a new way of looking at it.The questions of the students are often the source of new research. They often ask profound questions that I've thought about at times and then given up on, so to speak, for a while. It wouldn't do me any harm to think about them again and see if I can go any further now. The students may not be able to see the thing I want to answer, or the subtleties I want to think about, but they remind me of a problem by asking questions in the neighborhood of that problem. It's not so easy to remind yourself of these things.

Richard Feynman, The Dignified P

I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse.

Joyce Banda

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

Katherine Heigl

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Johann von Goethe

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Joseph De Maistre

Daisy didn't just change our lives, she changed our destiny.

Maryam Faresh

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Victor Hugo

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Osler

It seems to make an auto driver mad if he misses you.

Kin Hubbard

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Gaston Bachelard

Orange, Longbottom.

J.K. Rowling