I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little picturesof cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around incircles.

Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness... The only food at the Hotel X which was ever prepared cleanly was the staff's.

George Orwell

If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?

Lisa See

Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self.

Huston Smith

With renunciation life begins.

Amelia E. Barr

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Robert Collier

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Anna Letitia Barbauld

I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.

Dave Reichert

The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.

Talcott Parsons

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

James Dillet Freeman

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

Henry David Thoreau

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

Mikhail Bakunin

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the future

Victor Hugo