Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

Bo Bennett

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

Robert Rodriguez

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

Baltasar Gracian

Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.

Ralph Harper

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

Ray Kurzweil

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca th

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Maya Angelou

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

Cassandra Clare

All the principles of skeptics, stoics, atheists, etc., are true. But their conclusions are false, because the opposite principles are also true.

Blaise Pascal

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Edward R. Murrow

I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin.

Bryan White

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

John Gay