The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Ernest Hemingway

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Frederick W. Faber

I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky.

R. S. Thomas

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

Willem de Kooning

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Aldous Huxley

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Golda Meir

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Madame Curie

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

George Bernard Shaw

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.

Ernest Thompson Seton

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

Emanuel Celler