Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Dwight L. Moody

H'aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?

Mark Twain

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

John Stuart Mill

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Aldous Huxley

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?

Cornelia Funke

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

E. M. Forster, "repr. In Abinger

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

Mitt Romney

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

Sarah Dessen

When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone.

Stefano Benni

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson