Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.

Benjamin Disraeli

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Ghose Aurobindo

Political courage is not political suicide.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

Julie Burchill

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley

Natürlich ist die Ehe nur Gewohnheit. Eine schlechte sogar. Aber man bedauert sogar den Verlust der schlechten Gewohnheit. Kann sein, dass man sie sogar am meisten bedauert.

Oscar Wilde

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Wendell Phillips

The way to know life is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.

L. Ron Hubbard

I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.

Ron Johnson