Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and one sister, should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think it can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked.

Bertrand Russell

This intriguing 'somewhere else,' where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence -- because of all the characteristics of human nature, the richest by far is passion for the perfectly useless.

Hans W. Silvester

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

Neil Gaiman

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Thomas Fuller

...oppression is as American as apple pie...

Audre Lorde

I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it, I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority.

Nia Long

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

Robert H. Shaffer

Maybe that's what happens with age, I thought. All your life you force yourself to forget people who have hurt you, but as you get older and weaker their memory surfaces again, like a bubble in the water. You have to surrender, because you feel to tired to fight it and push it down again. And maybe, unexpectedly, you find out that instead, of revamping your anger, those memories produce an unexpected sweetness.

Francesca Marciano

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Dom

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not distinctly and expressly affirmed in it.

Abraham Lincoln

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Samuel Johnson

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

Ed Koch