God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature.

Sappho

As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

Jeffrey Kluger

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Hannah Arendt

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

Jack Kevorkian

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Leo Tolstoy

Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

Virginia Woolf

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Pierre De Beaumarchais

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Tim O'Brien

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

Rod Stewart

More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.

Lewis H. Lapham

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.

Claudette Colbert

Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.

Plato