It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution

Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?

Jane Austen

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Peter De Vries

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

Benjamin Franklin

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.

Robin Williams

Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.

Emily Dickinson

and soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra.

Neil Gaiman

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

Daniele Vare

Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.

Paul Klee

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it, said the Philosopher.

James Stephens

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

Leo Tolstoy

I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.

Cindy Margolis

The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.

Anthony Burgess