I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat.

Jodi Picoult

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.

Luke Ford

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

Leszczynski Stanislaus

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Ezra Pound

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

Michael Haneke

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Joseph Brodsky

Psychology is the science of mental life

William James

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

Joseph Story

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

Bob Riley

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

Orson Pratt