To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Just do it.

Nike Corporation

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.

Sir Thomas Browne

Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it out of wood, you must make it out of words.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.

John Green

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

Saint John of the Cross

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Thomas Carlyle

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

Pat Buckley

I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.

John Fowles

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

Barry Commoner