Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Security will produce danger.

Samuel Johnson

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

James Allen

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

Madeleine Albright

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

W. Somerset Maugham

He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Ambrose Bierce

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

Joseph Butler

Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Anais Nin

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

Audre Lorde

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

Mary Gordon