My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Bertrand Russell

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

Mark Twain

L'inferno e il paradiso sono tutti e due dentro di noi.

Oscar Wilde

As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and the scar disappears, do we begin to discover where we are, and that nature is one and continuous everywhere.

Henry David Thoreau

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

Eva Figes

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Milan Kundera

I really love laughing.

Maya Rudolph

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

Rahm Emanuel

In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?

Gautama Buddha

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Katharine Hepburn

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

James Thomson

Better never begin than never make an end.

George Herbert