You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

Guru Nanak

The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you.

Bethenny Frankel

An erotic life is, for more and more people, that which can be captured on digital photographs and on video. And perhaps the torture is more attractive, as something to record, when it has a sexual component.

Susan Sontag

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

William Shakespeare

China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

Virginia Foxx

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

Maimonides

There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

Marilynne Robinson

Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.

Howard Dean

The judge asked, What do you plead? I said, Insanity, your honour, who in their right mind would park in the passing lane?

Steven Wright

Thank you for your loyalty, and many kindnesses through the years...You have one by one validated my modest life as an actress, far beyond my personal fulfillment. Dare to pursue your own positive dreams. I value each of you.

Dyanne Thorne

Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point:Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days.

Hank Nuwer, Wrongs of Passage, p

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Virginia Woolf