Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Ezra Pound

Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Andre Gide

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Only law can give us freedom.

Johann von Goethe

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

Buddy Guy

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

Enrique Iglesias

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Henry David Thoreau

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

A. N. Wilson

When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it feels like two hours. But, when you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it feels like two minutes. That's relativity!

Albert Einstein

All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

Chinese Proverb

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

Mariah Carey