The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

Paul Claudel

So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility of friendship, and so many accidents must concur to its rise and its continuance, that the greatest part of mankind content themselves without it, and supply its place as they can, with intere

Samuel Johnson

Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.

William Osler, Chauvinism in Med

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong.

Sarah Gilbert

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

Jean-Francois Cope

Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.

Carl Gustav Jung, The Archetypes

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

Naomi Wolf

Learning the truth has become my life's love

Dan Brown

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

Hillary Clinton

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Abraham Lincoln

We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us.

Cassandra Clare