Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Albert Einstein

Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and an incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race.To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution.

Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, p. 9

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

Sarah Dessen

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds -- a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

Jim Bishop

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

Benjamin Carson

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Thomas Jefferson

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Theodore Rubin

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity

Albert Einstein

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Ambrose Bierce

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca