I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.

The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.

Charles Baudelaire

I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.?

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

Abraham Lincoln

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.

Kurt Huber

I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.

David Levithan

So much of design is context.

Steve Madden

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious

Marcel Proust

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

David Mellor

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron