If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.

Cleveland Abbe

Nothing makes a woman beauty than her belief that she is beauty.

Bashir F. Biodun

She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.

Ada Leverson

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

Oliver Herford

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Talcott Parsons

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.

Jason Mraz

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

Victor Hugo

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Johann von Goethe

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

Tim Bishop

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Katherine Dunn