Philosophy has forgotten about children

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world -- it's better than being invisible.

Carter Heyward

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

H. L. Mencken

Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods.

English Proverb

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

Jodi Picoult

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

William Hazlitt

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Kurt Vonnegut

I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that's just the way it is. I don't think my son even knows any different.

Charisma Carpenter

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Oliver Goldsmith

The hunt for young authors who, while maintaining a prestige value (with a r

Cyril Connolly, Blueprint for a

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Earl Nightingale

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Edward Rickenbacker