It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

Elizabeth I

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Henry Miller

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Thomas Carlyle

In search of my mother's garden I found my own.

Alice Walker

Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds.Open your doors and look abroad.From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before.In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.

Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardene

The less I needed the better I felt.

Charles Bukowski

As for science and religion, the known and admitted facts are few and plain enough. All that the parsons say is unproved. All that the doctors say is disproved. That's the only difference between science and religion there's ever been, or will be.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;And to do that well craves a kind of wit:He must observe their mood on whom he jests,The quality of persons, and the time,And, like the haggard, check at every featherThat comes before his eye. This is a practiseAs full of labour as a wise man's artFor folly that he wisely shows is fit;But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

William Shakespeare

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Albert Einstein

What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.

Stephen Richards

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

Arne Jacobsen

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

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