It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.

Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Oscar Wilde

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

Aung San Suu Kyi

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

Soren Kierkegaard

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

Andrew Cohen

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Edward W. Howe

I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.

Monica Seles

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Walter Bagehot

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Charles de Gaulle

Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the water that had taught me to sing.

Pablo Neruda

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Samuel Johnson

Some days we lose all at once and somedays we get all back at once. But either way,Accept it.

Diarian Hersi

I feel more mature than most people my age.

Leighton Meester