AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

Karen Armstrong

...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.

John Green

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

W. Somerset Maugham

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

Allan Massie

The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.

Edward Young

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

William James

All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.

Matt Drudge

Time stays, we go.

H. L. Mencken

Lay your sleeping head, my love Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral; But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie: Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful.

W. H. Auden

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

James Allen

I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

Rand Paul

He fell asleep murmuring 'Sanity is not statistical,' with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom.

George Orwell