When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.

Alexis de Tocqueville

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

Bill Condon

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

James Allen

As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

Jane Austen

She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was it marriage? If one liked other people, was it marriage? And finally, if one still wished, more than anything in the whole world, to write poetry, was it marriage? She had her doubts.

Virginia Woolf

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

Paul Fussell

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Andrew Young

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

Sylvia Plath

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

William Lloyd

This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.

Mark Zuckerberg