In the battle of the sexes, woman gains her greatest victory by surrendering.

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves

George Bernard Shaw

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Thomas Mann

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

James Baldwin

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Albert Einstein

There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.

Ann Patchett

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

Chinese Proverb

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Joseph Joubert

As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.

Andrew Weil

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Albert Camus

Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.

Albert Einstein

So to live is heaven: To make undying music in the world, Breathing a beauteous order that controls With growing sway the growing life of man.

George Eliot

now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.

Don Marquis