The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

Don Henley

A person who does not have stability of mind is an unstable dinghy. In this struggle of life, I will confront all the challenges with truth and strength, and will never waver. Cowardliness is an eveil which I should banish from my life.

Totaram Sanadhya

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

James S. Coleman

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Pablo Picasso

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

John Wooden

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

JeanPierre Melville

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Antisthenes

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

Bertolt Brecht

These are the times that try men's souls.

Thomas Paine

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, journal ent

Love is only one of many passions.

Samuel Johnson

Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.

Peter Wastholm