You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

I wish to bean inspector of volcanoes.I want to study cloud formationsand memorize the windand learn by heart the habits ofthe ponderosa pine.

Edward Abbey, Hayduke Lives

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Marcus Aurelius

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

Roseanne Barr

When I meet the right girl I'll definitely have no hesitations to a relationship.

Lee DeWyze

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

P. D. James

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

James Reston

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

Doug Larson

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy. Government has no such office. To protect the weak and the minority from the impositions of the strong and the majorityto prevent any one from positively working to render the people unhappy, to do the labor not of an officious inter-meddler in the affairs of men, but of a prudent watchman who prevents outragethese are rather the proper duties of a government. Under the specious pretext of effecting the happiness of the whole community, nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government have been carried through. The legislature may, and should, when such things fall in its way, lend its potential weight to the cause of virtue and happinessbut to legislate in direct behalf of those objects is never available, and rarely effects any even temporary benefit.

Walt Whitman

We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away.

R. Southwell

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Richard P. Feynman

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Bennett Cerf

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seems to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

Kahlil Gibran