In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

Joni Mitchell

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....

Aldous Huxley

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Proverb

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

John Ruskin

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

Friedrich von Schiller

When I am lonely for boys what I miss is their bodies. The smell of their skin, its saltiness. The rough whisper of stubble against my cheek. The strong firm hands, the way they rest on the curve of my back.

A.M. Harte

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

George Gurdjieff

You Believe what you see, You Perceive what you do.

Zohaib Naseer

That which you call your soul or spirit is your conciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Alexander Pope

She went over to the mirror...glancing at herself sidelong, as women do who think they have lost their beauty; repudiating a complete reflection.

Rosamond Lehman, The Ballad and