Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Simone Weil

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it . . . and it is all one.

M. F. K. Fisher, from her 1943 b

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Kurt Vonnegut

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

Arianna Stassinopoulos

Faith doesn't rely on odds or statistical data. God only requires that we have faith; the rest is up to him.

Nancy Stephan

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

William Blake

First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

George Orwell

I like perfume and flowers.

Donatella Versace

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

Henry David Thoreau

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

Alberto Juantorena