No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Twenty-five years ago, while an undergraduate at Stanford, I got a job on campus as a lifeguard, deepening a love of swimming and water that has lasted throughout my life. I took the duties seriously and studied the swimmers with professional vigilance, relieved at the end of each day that no emergency rescue had been required. But the greatest challenge of the job was standing poolside in a bathing suit with my body on display.Work began in the locker room, where I changed into my Speedo and surveyed my reflection, assessing what would be on view for the next few hours. I was plagued by self-criticism. I imagined the swimmers judging my shape, until I made myself remember that I was there to guard their lives, not their fantasies. Later I performed my variation of the same ablutions everyone else did, showering and hair washing, the application of lotion and makeup -- preparations for re-entering the other world of walking upright on solid land.

Elizabeth Rosner, "The New York

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Theodore Parker

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Chanakya

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

Audre Lorde

Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.

Mohamed El-Erian

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

George Orwell

You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

James G. Bilkey

In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

Jean Giraudoux

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

John Arthorne

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

Caroline Kennedy

And will 'a not come again? And will 'a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to thy death bed: He will never come again.

William Shakespeare

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

Georgia O'Keeffe