The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things , objectively, and to be able to separate this picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.

When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?

Jane Smiley

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Robert Cecil DayLewis

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Theodore Sturgeon

What the White man had won with so much blood and dishonesty was not the living land of the Red man, but the corpse of that land. It was decay that the White man won. It would turn to dust in his hands, Alvin knew it.

Orson Scott Card

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

John Charles Polanyi

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

Sam Levenson

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Francis Bacon

The most important thing in human relationship is conversation.but people don't talk anymore,they don't sit down to talk and listen.They go to theatre,the cinema,watch television,listen to the radio,read books but they almost never talk.(pg114)

Paulo Coelho

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

Elvis Stojko

The grain-fields went up the hillsides. Now as we went higher there was a wind blowing the grain.

Ernest Hemingway

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gerald Priestland