Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Roger Smith

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

J.K. Rowling

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

Elizabeth Gaskell

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Dorothy Day

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.

Carl Sagan

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

James Boswell

I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.

Julia Barr

When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?

George Orwell

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

Gary Ackerman

I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

Rihanna

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Henry David Thoreau

How to make our ideas clear, Popular Science, January 1878

Charles Sanders Peirce