The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

James Whistler

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Henry David Thoreau

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

Bob Geldof

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Alice Walker

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.

Eric Butterworth

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.

James K. Polk

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

SunTzu

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.

David Miliband

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

LaoTzu

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

Joyce Maynard