True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

Jarvis Cocker

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

Charles Olson

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner

Oscar Wilde

He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.

Virginia Woolf

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

Buffalo Bill

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Our duality becomes indifference. We just want to live our lives. That's my take anyway.

James Dye

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Steve Jobs

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

Michelle Bachelet

If you must cry over spilled milk then please try to condense it

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