The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

Barack Obama

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Sigmund Freud

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Albert Schweitzer

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

John C. Lilly

Grumbling is the death of love.

Marlene Dietrich

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

David Lodge

The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood.

Edwin Markham

...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.

Alain de Botton, On Love

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Thomas Carlyle

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

Jean Rostand

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Queen Victoria