All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

John Green

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

Karl Rove

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Samuel Johnson

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

Blaise Pascal

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Albert Camus

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

Lao Tzu

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.

P.C. Hodgell

Patience is the best medicine.

John Florio

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of

I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

George Orwell

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Albert Einstein