Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.

Thomas Keneally

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Karl Marx

once I came close to that most elusive fire burning with hopeless love and desire but it was just about the worst thing that I could do it was just about the worst thing I could do

Natalie Merchant

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

Alice Cooper

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinger

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Yoko Ono

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Arthur C. Clarke

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

Jack White

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

James Thurber

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Robert Frost