It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

Edmund Burke

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

Warren Farrell

There is no better audience for someone in love than someone in love.

Emily Giffin

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

John Hall

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Elizabeth Bowen

What is love after all but trusting in the unknown.

Marty Rubin

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.

Albert Camus

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Dalai Lama

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

Laura Marling

You don't manifest dreams without taking chances.

Stephen Richards

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Jacqueline KennedyOnassis

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Gene Fowler