Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

Stanislav Grof

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

John Mason Brown

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

Doug Coupland

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.

Guy Clark

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.

John Green

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

W. H. Auden

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

Maimonides

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

George Santayana

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Madonna

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.

T. Scott McLeod