Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

Pleasure is to Women what the Sun is to the Flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, etiolates, and destroys.

Colton

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters

Thomas Jefferson

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Plato

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

Milton Berle

Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world.

J.K. Rowling

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.

Elton John

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Oscar Wilde

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Gloria Steinem

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

James Hetfield

Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Richard Carlson