We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

That's all anyone has, and it's always brief, although, of course, some people believe they have a past where they can accumulate things and a future where they will accumulate still more. By the way, speaking of the present moment, do you masturbate a lot?

Paulo Coelho

To die hating them, that was freedom.

George Orwell

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

When desire dies, fear is born.

Baltasar Gracian

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.

Danica Patrick

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

Marianne Moore

When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

Edward George BulwerLytton

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.

Charles de Lint

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

Rumi

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

E. F. Schumacher