Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Sally Kempton

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

Garrett Hardin

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

Elliot Paul

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Russell Simmons

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

George H. W. Bush

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Ovid

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

It is harmful to eat if you are not hungry. it is even worse to have sex if you lack desire. But even more harmful is to try to think when you do not wish to, or to be engaged in meaningless intellectual activity. Many people do so when they want to improve their position.

Leo Tolstoy

There’s about as much educational benefit studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary.

Jacques Cousteau

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Sydney Smith