love is a hawk with velvet clawslove is a rock with heart and veinslove is a lion with satin jawslove is a storm with silken reins

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Joseph Addison

Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

Claude LeviStrauss

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Stanislaw Lem

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Edmund Burke

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

Rand Paul

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

Euripides

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

John Stuart Mill

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

Orhan Pamuk

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

George Bernard Shaw

Absent a sense of the preciousness of one's own life, why respect the life of anyone else?

Kentetsu Takamori

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

Horst Koehler