A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.

John Erskine

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Lily Tomlin

The purpose of population is not ultimately peopling earth. It is to fill heaven.

Graham D. Leonard

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

Taraji P. Henson

I missed you, she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and she rested her head against his chest. She could hear nothing within, just her own heartbeat echoing.

Thomm Quackenbush

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.

Sue Johanson

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Abraham Lincoln

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

Anon.

So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.

Raymond Chandler

Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics, but has become a problem in science only very recently.

Fritjof Capra

We must become the change we want to see.

Mahatma Gandhi