The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Leigh Hunt

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

Gloria Stuart

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

James Thomson

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

Kenneth Koch

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

Anish Kapoor

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

Taslima Nasrin

And, oh, how blessed is it thus to meet! To feel that vanished years have not estranged us,distance has not diminished love, that we are to each other even as we parted; to feel again the fond kiss, to hear once more the accents of a voice which to us has been for years so still,--a voice that brings with it the gush of memory! Past days flit before us; feelings, thoughts, hopes, we deemed were dead, all rise again, summoned by that secret witchery, the well-remembered though long silent voice. Let years, long, lingering, saddening years drag on their chain, let youth have given place to manhood, manhood to age, still will it be the same--the voice we once have loved, and deemed to us for ever still--oh, time, and grief, and blighted hope will be forgotten, and youth, in its undimmed and joyous beauty, its glow of generous feelings, its bright anticipations, all, all again be ours.http://library.beau.org/gutenberg/1/2/3/6/12362/12362-8.txt

Grace Aguilar, The Mother's Reco

The isolation must be their desire; I couldn't imagine any door that wouldn't be opened by that degree of beauty.

Stephenie Meyer

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Zig Ziglar

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

Jos