Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Simone Weil

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

Jane Austen

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Robert Collier

Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust.

Francesca Marciano

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

Andrea Dworkin

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

Isaac Rosenfeld

The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please.

Amerigo Vespucci

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us.

Henry Ward Beecher

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Arthur Schnitzler

I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.

Lita Ford

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Benjamin Franklin