Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, selfrestraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

J.K. Rowling

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

John Galsworthy

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Marilyn Monroe

States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.

John Shimkus

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Joseph Conrad

Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity.

Andrea Dworkin

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

Barbara Walters

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Benjamin Disraeli

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

Adlai Stevenson

Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty.

Horace Bushnell

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Joseph Addison