I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Golda Meir

Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?

Azar Nafisi

I can fight with a real problem. But I cannot solve the ignorance. I cannot solve the illusion of your mind.

Ravindra Shukla

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

Scott Adams

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Leo Rosten

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

John Ruskin

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

Oscar Wilde

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Marianne Moore

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Phyllis Diller

Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.

Mary Doria Russell