Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

Proverb

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Ernest Hemingway

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.

Lawrence Durrell

Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.

Maria Sharapova

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

William Shakespeare

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.

Ron Wyden

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

Kurt Vonnegut

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Sir James Goldsmith

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo