In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Dennis Rainey

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Jane Austen

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

Jodi Picoult

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

George Carlin

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

Michael Jackson

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Noam Chomsky

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to

Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

Charles Dickens

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.

Anthony Robbins

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

Patrick White

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles. p. 108.

Bertrand Russell