Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

C.S. Lewis

The only reward of virtue is virtue

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

Thomas Jefferson

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr Erskine.

Oscar Wilde

Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high.

Adrienne Gusoff

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

Billie Jean King

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Oscar Wilde

John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.

Mary Cheney

The one who can make full sense of love and lives within its narrow expections undresses no weeping face.

Darmie Orem

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

David Bowie

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.

Homer

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Marquis de Sade