We cannot put off living until we are ready.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Arthur Erickson

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

Sue Grafton

Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung

The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Marcel Duchamp

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

David Suzuki

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Gotthold Lessing

It raises my spleen more than anything.

Jane Austen

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

Robert Reich

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are

Blaise Pascal

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

Candace Bushnell

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Aldous Huxley