The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

Christopher Hitchens

Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous

Ambrose Bierce

The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

Alan Watts

What is love after all but trusting in the unknown.

Marty Rubin

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

A. N. Wilson

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

Will Durant

We cannot look at the child who has been raped and offer the theological maxim that God will draw something good from out of this. We cannot think of the children consumed by the fires of Auschwitz and Hiroshima and manufacture some easy gratitude. Gratitude does not take away the horrors of violence.

Ellen Vaughn, Radical Gratitude

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Thomas Henry Huxley

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle

Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who's out in front of nobody? Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves.

P. J. O'Rourke

I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again.

Maria Sharapova

Freedom is such a gift.

Ryan Gosling