To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.

George Santayana

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Jean de La Fontaine

But it doesn't change what we are to each other. It's like there's always been a piece of my soul missing, and it's inside you, Clary. I know I told you once that wheter God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm not.

Cassandra Clare

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Mark Twain

It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail.

David Merrick

I get 70 miles to the gallon on this hog.

Lloyd

The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us

Allan Lokos

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Anna Freud

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

John Paul Stevens

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

Nia Vardalos

What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?

Anthony Weiner

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Theodor Adorno