The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

J.K. Rowling

My dreams are all follies.

Taylor Caldwell

But things work out, you know? Even if it doesn't feel okay for a long time, or even if it feels lke things will never be okay again, everything works out in the end.

Lauren Morrill

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

William Shakespeare

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

William Bolitho

The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.

Mark E. Smith

Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her torch trail across to the opposite side of the common like the tail-light of a low car driving away.

Graham Greene

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

Zora Neale Hurston

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Plato

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.

Carolyn Kenmore, Mannequin: My L

Thoughts, words, emotions

Allan Lokos