Those who desire to certify miracles may wish to say that such recoveries have no natural explanation. But this does not at all mean that there is therefore a supernatural one.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Jane Austen

Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

James M. Baldwin

Thinking more of others' happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love, the true desires, that made her herself? Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; so it seemed.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Julius Charles Hare

History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.

Arthur Balfour

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

Milan Kundera

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Jim Morrison

The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Wilson Mizner

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

Anne Tyler

We're all in this alone.

Lily Tomlin

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.

Nikos Kazantzakis