To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love.

Richard Edwardes

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

Paul J. Meyer

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Isaac Asimov

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Graham Greene

You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.

Midge Ure

My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

Ellie Kemper

I am a staunch feminist, in spite of all women's magazines.

Gerhard Kocher

Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.

American Indian Proverb, Cheyenn

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

Johann von Goethe

As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.

Origen

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter