If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.

These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, Secrets

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

Salman Rushdie

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Virginia Woolf

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

Technology...is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

C.P. (Charles Percy) Snow, "New

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Albert Einstein

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

Mark Twain

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

Bruce Oldfield

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.

Ayelet Waldman

In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet, even then, it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward. Blessed beyond all earthly blessedness is the man who, in the tempestuous darkness of the soul, has dared to hold fast to these venerable landmarks. Thrice blest is he who, when all is dreary and cheerless within and without, when his teachers terrify him, and friends shrink from him, has obstinately clung to moral good.

Frederick William Robertson

I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.

Tiger Woods