That is the thankless position of the father in the family -- the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

Marquis De Custine

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

Alan Hovhaness

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Michael Korda

Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot.

Justin Bieber

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

H. Rap Brown

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Jane Harrison

Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

James Hillman

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

William Shakespeare

Real art can only rarely be created even by a real artist; like a child in a mother's womb, it is the ripened fruit of his prior life. False art, though, can be ceaseless produced by craftsmen, according to the dictates of a market.

Leo Tolstoy

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Ibn Gabirol

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.

Timothy Radcliffe