I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Katherine Mansfield

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Bruce Lee

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent celibacy, by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity backward.

Germaine Greer

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Ivan Turgenev

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

Vik Muniz

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

Joseph Sobran

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting

Moliere

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Jean Rostand

I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

James Gordon Bennett

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Grace Hopper

A life I have lived and have found just that... life.

M.J. Chrisman