Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

Humberto R. Maturana

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

Matthew Lesko

And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.

Omar Khayyam

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

English Proverb

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword

Samuel Johnson

guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.

Toni Morrison

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

Barbara Bush

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

Nikolai Gogol

The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

Oscar Wilde

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Jim Henson

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Sophocles

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers.

Maya Angelou