Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

Arabella Weir

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Johann von Goethe

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlaying our hard hearts.

Charles Dickens

The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

Michel de Montaigne

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

Alfred North Whitehead, Process

Scars are just another kind of memory.

M.L. Stedman

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

Kevin Brooks

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

Mark Twain

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.

George Eliot

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Albert Camus

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along -- whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Bernard Meltzer