People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

George Eliot

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

Angelus Silesius

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

G. H. Hardy

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas

Live the moment for the moment.

Michael Jordan

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

Theodore Bikel

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.

Paulo Coelho

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Samuel Johnson

You are the land. The land is you.

Merlin

I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Wilson Mizner

No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.

Francoise Sagan