One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Washington Irving

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

Della Reese

The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.

Ali Shariati

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Alphonse de Lamartine

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

Christopher Hitchens

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Erich Fromm

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

Jane Austen

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Ugo Betti

My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

Jessica Hahn

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

Rowan D. Williams

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

Steven Wright