You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.

Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive

C.S. Lewis

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

Daniel Goleman

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.

Henry Ford

When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row.

Pras Michel

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Raymond Herzog

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

George Carlin

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

Anon., Old equine expression

People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one.

Holly Black

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

Billy Sunday

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

Friedrich Nietzsche