There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future

The people recognize themselves in their commodities they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

Herbert Marcuse

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams

Orson Scott Card

But let us not forget this either: it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run new things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Ezra Pound

During a very busy life I have often been asked, How did you manage to do it all? The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.

Richard Tangye

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title

Virginia Woolf

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.

Katie Price

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Henry Fielding

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

John Green