Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Lower a bucket into a well of self-deception, and what comes up must be immortal truth, mustn't it?

Charles Reade

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.

Charles Stross

For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me. Before, I had never experienced aught but a not unpleasing sadness. The bond of a common humanity now drew me irresistibly to gloom. A fraternal melancholy! For both I and Bartleby were sons of Adam. I remembered the bright silks and sparkling faces I had seen that day, in gala trim, swanlike sailing down the Mississippi of Broadway; and I contrasted them with the pallid copyist, and thought to myself, Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.

Herman Melville, Bartleby the Sc

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

Gene Tierney

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

Louis L'Amour

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.

Colin Mochrie

When you've found another soul who see's in to your own...take good care of each other..and remember to be kind..

Jackson Browne

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

Axl Rose

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

Martin Fleischmann

Of course I'm doing something about my overdraft: I'm seeing my accountant.

Barry Fantoni

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Henry Ward Beecher