All concord's born of contraries.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Every day, the New York Times carries a motto in a box on its front page. All the News That's Fit to Print, it says. It's been saying it for decades, day in and day out. I imagine most readers of the canonical sheet have long ceased to notice this bannered and flaunted symbol of its mental furniture. I myself check every day to make sure that the bright, smug, pompous, idiotic claim is still there.

Christopher Hitchens

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Marquis de Sade

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Johannes Tauler

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

Simon Sinek

As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.

David M. Brown

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.

Marilyn vos Savant

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

Halle Berry

The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.

Walter S. Robertson

We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything.

Ashley Scott

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Anita Brookner

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

Joan Didion