The best road to progress is freedom's road.

A moment later I heard my sweetheart running up the stairs. My heart expanded with such force that it almost blotted me out. I hitched up the pants of my pajamas, flung the door open: and simultaneously Lolita arrived, in her Sunday frock, stamping, panting, and the she was in my arms, her innocent mouth melting under the ferocious pressure of dark male jaws, my palpitating darling!

Vladimir Nabokov

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know, that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody wants a girl whose beauty is imperceptible to all but him...

Germaine Greer

Advertising is the life of trade.

Calvin Coolidge

No good deed goes unpunished.

Oscar Wilde

My wife and I lived all alone, contention was our only bone. I fought with her, she fought with me, and things went on right merrily. But now I live here by myself with hardly a damn thing on the shelf, and pass my days with little cheer since I have parted from my dear.

Robert Creeley, Ballad of the De

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Albert Einstein

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

Joseph Prince

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

Anthony Burgess

A short absence is the safest.

Ovid

There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Plato