You don't love people at their best, sweetheart. You just love them because you can't help it.

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

Chinua Achebe

Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.

Selma James

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

William Shakespeare

We are all ignorant once and only when someone or something that knows more than us, comes in.

Emmanuel Aghado

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

James Gleick

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Harold J. Smith

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.

Walter Gropius

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

Italo Calvino

Surprise me! Yogi's reply when he was asked by his wife, Carmen, where he would like to be buried

Yogi Berra

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

Wilkie Collins

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus