Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would feel milk and love flowing from me to her as once it had flowed to me. It emptied me. As the baby fed, I seemed slowly to grow empty of myself, as if in the presence of that long flow of love even grief could not stand.

Wendell Berry

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

Erma Bombeck

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

Augustine of Hippo

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Johann von Goethe

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

John Ralston Saul

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

John Gay

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

Spalding Gray

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

Gloria Swanson

Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.

Angela Carter

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

Chet Raymo

Clarity affords focus.

Thomas Leonard