What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

Mark Twain

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

Henry David Thoreau

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Gaulle

I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

Ernest Shackleton

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately-many people will help you unintentionally.

Santha Rama Rau

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Jane Fonda

The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.

Proverb

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

Abraham Lincoln

Everything in moderation -- including moderation.

Harvey Steiman

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Frederick Douglass

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.

Christopher Hitchens

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld