Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a range of invective that would make a navy blanch.

Pam Brown

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

Jack Vance

Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it.

Terry Pratchett

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.

Mignon McLaughlin

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

Charles de Gaulle

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

Etty Hillesum

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Iyanla Vanzant

I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin.

Bryan White

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Phillip E. Johnson

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Joseph Addison

I always thought of losing my virginity as a career move.

Madonna

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

Albert Einstein