Thank you, Tempest, for loving me when understanding was too hard. Thank you for understanding when loving me is impossible.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.

William Shakespeare

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

John Selden

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

Bill Gates

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

John Ruskin

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Henry Ward Beecher

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

Sue Monk Kidd

Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards

Andrei Tarkovsky

If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action

Bertrand Russell

Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.

Libba Bray

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

Barry Commoner