Underneath the beautiful exterior there was an element of ruthlessness and toughness that I had trouble either accepting or forgetting.

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

Wallace Stevens

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.

Kristin Cashore

I don't think it's healthy for people to want there to be a permanent unalterable irremovable authority over them.

Christopher Hitchens

If you must strike a man from behind, slap hi on the back.

Source Unknown

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

Evelyn Underhill

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop, "comment in the NY J

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

Tom Flores

They're not going to teach science at all. What they do is take the science students down to the lake, tie them in burlap sacks and throw them in. If God thinks they're good science students, they float.

Paula Poundstone

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Walter Gilbey

Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

Ben Shapiro

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Henry Van Dyke