Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

Martin Scorsese

The best mind-altering drug is truth.

Lily Tomlin

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.

Helen Hunt

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

King Abdullah II

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

Charles Dickens

Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.

Bertrand Russell

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

Jimmy Wales

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Margaret Cavendish

After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason

Albert Camus

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Madeleine L'Engle

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

Jodi Picoult

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.

Tom Araya