Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Marianne Williamson

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

Bodhidharma

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.

Cesare Pavese

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.

Konrad Adenauer

All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

P. J. O'Rourke

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.

Hal Borland

One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

Kurt Vonnegut

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Dwayne Johnson

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Rebecca West