The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you.

Chill Wills

We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.

Joseph Farrell, Lectures of a Ce

All lovers live by longing, and endure; summon a vision and declare it pure

Theodore Roethke

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of the element air, which by unquestioned experiments is known to have weight.

Evangelista Torricelli

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

Thomas Fuller

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.

James Joyce

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Elbert Hubbard

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Audrey Hepburn