Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.

Thomas De Quincey

Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

Linda Cardellini

You can't truly hate someone until you've cared about them. Until you've loved them.

Kirsten Hubbard

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

William M. Bulger

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Tom Hanks

An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

Alexander Pope

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Peter Kreeft

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

Italo Calvino

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Mason Cooley

The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Andrea Dworkin