The property of power is to protect.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other.

Sigmund Freud

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

Cher

Look for the heart in a man before you look at what he has.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Sojourner Truth

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.

Michael Enzi

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

May Sarton

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

Alanis Morissette

I have a very close relationship with my parents.

Caroline Wozniacki

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.

Jacques Barzun

From shadows and symbols into the truth!

John Henry Newman

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

Christopher Hitchens