I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

C.S. Lewis

The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons.

Leonard Neal

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

William Shakespeare

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Honore de Balzac

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

Thomas Troward

Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.''Seventeen,' Gus corrected.'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.'But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.'I was kind of crying by then.

John Green

The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell

Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

Betty Friedan

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

Claire Cook

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Milton

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

Victor Hugo