People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who've left us is because we knew them so well.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Confucius

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.

Johann von Goethe

I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.

Dominic Monaghan

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

Mary Kay Ash

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

Ben Bradlee

Let God's promises shine on your problems.

Corrie Ten Boom

Lawrence had done it in a way, and Joyce. But I think it's an important thing to do now and then, to describe the sex act as our descent, or adventure, into a primordial or strange world, having very little to do with how we look in suits or what our educations have been. It's a well of darkness, as it were, that leaves you refreshed.

John Updike, (on the topic of wr

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Henry James

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.

A. L. Rowse

Your greatest path of influence is love.

Mollie Marti

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.

Murray Gell-Mann