Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple. Penny liked uncomplicated beauty.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Scottish Proverb

You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

Mark Twain

If everybody minded their own business, the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

Lewis Carroll

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Richard Henry Stoddard

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

Criss Jami

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Leslie Caron

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Stendhal

In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world.

Lucy Powell

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Aldous Huxley

Without morals a Republic can not subsist any length of time; they therfore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure...are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free goverments.

Charles Carroll, letter to James

To fight fear, act. To increase fear -- wait, put off postpone.

Dr. David Schwartz

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

Andrea Dworkin