Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.

James Joyce

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

Henry Miller

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Thomas S. Monson

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Katherine Mansfield

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Vladimir Lenin

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

Robin Wright Penn

Mungkin kau harus berhenti memedulikan apa kata orang tentang dirimu.

Francisca Todi

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

Sheena Easton

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.

Jane Campion