The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

William Randolph Hearst

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Aphra Behn

I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.

John Green

We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because we were just these small humans but we felt more longing than could ever fit inside us.

Nina LaCour

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Mark Twain

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Eric Hoffer

Miracle me no miracles.

Miguel de Cervantes

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Mahatma Gandhi

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Alan Cohen

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau