After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

Henry David Thoreau

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. ... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated.

Virginia Woolf

In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Henry David Thoreau

Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.

Albert Camus

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

Jeremiah Wright

Truth makes on the surface of nature no one track of light - every eye looking on finds its own.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

Thomas W. Higginson

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

Milan Kundera

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

John Donne

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

Larry Hagman

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Denis Waitley

This inhuman place makes human monsters.

Stephen King