Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

Natalie Imbruglia

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Rick Warren

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Robertson Davies

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Agnes Martin

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Harold MacMillan

[Books] were devices as crassly practical for storing or transmitting language, as the latest Silicon Valley miracles. But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our mind and souls, in a spiritual adventure.

Kurt Vonnegut

Smile at strangers and you just might change a life.

Steve Maraboli

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Marilyn French

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

Alfred Mercier

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

William Hazlitt

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy our existence challenges its life.

Charlotte Bunch