Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

John Vance Cheney

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Stephen Hawking

I've chosen a life that's so different from everybody else's that it cuts me off from them. Practically everybody I know treats me like a guest celebrity. Of course it's my own fault. I feel so damn alone sometimes, I feel like I could just float away into the stratosphere and everybody would stand there looking up at me and not one would haul me back down to earth. No ropes.

Jordan Mechner

It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

Siegfried Sassoon

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Francis Bacon

Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.

Germaine Greer

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Randall Jarrell

Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Pablo Picasso

only made billionaires out of millionaires. is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.

Kurt Vonnegut

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Jo Coudert

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

John Green