I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Simone de Beauvoir

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

Richard Russo

You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.

Alison Croggon

God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the Last Judgement. Allow me to laugh respectfully. I shall wait for it resolutely, for I have known what is worse, the judgement of men. For them, no extenuating circumstances; even the good intention is ascribed to crime. Have you at least heard of the spitting cell, which a nation recently thought up to prove itself the greatest on earth? A walled-up box in which the prisoner can stand without moving. The solid door that locks him in the cement shell stops at chin level. Hence only his face is visible, and every passing jailer spits copiously on it. The prisoner, wedged into his cell, cannot wipe his face, though he is allowed, it is true. to close his eyes. Well, that, mon cher, is a human invention. They didn't need God for that little masterpiece.

Albert Camus

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Christian Nevell Bovee

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

George McGovern

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords

Samuel Johnson

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

Little Milton

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Arnold Palmer

If you don't understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don't work on logic anymore. Then, everything is all about belief.

Joy Reidenberg

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

A. N. Wilson

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Niccolo Machiavelli