I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

Konrad Lorenz

Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all.

Albanian Proverb

I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but conclude that society has something in itself eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its pleasures so

Samuel Johnson

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

Julia Roberts

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

Neil Gaiman

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

Sir John Robert Seeley

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.

Ernest Hemingway

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Margot Asquith

He who weeps does not die; weeping is a sign of life; weep, and your life is worth something again.

Halldór Laxness

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Marc Chagall

I have the courage of my convictions.

Brigitte Bardot

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.

Criss Jami