Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.

Betty Rollin

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Ethel Watts Mumford

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

William Randolph Hearst

Time is not what you think. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

Mitch Albom, The Five People You

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Samuel Johnson

We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you.

Jodi Picoult

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

Moon Unit Zappa

What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.

Dean Koontz

Mrs. Joe war eine sehr reinliche Hausfrau, doch sie verstand sich ausnehmend gut darauf, ihre Reinlichkeit bequemer und unerträglicher zu machen, als jeder Schmutz gewesen wäre. Die Reinlichkeit ist der Gottesfurcht verwandt, und manche verfahren mit ihrer Religion ganz genauso.

Charles Dickens

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

Albert Camus

I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it it really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one.

G.K. Chesterton

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

John Edward