Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.

The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

Thomas Carlyle

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Henry Adams

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

James Joyce

All I've learned in today's Shakespeare class is: Sometimes you have to fall in love with the wrong person just so you can find the right person. A more useful lesson would've been: Sometimes the right person doesn't love you back. Or sometimes the right person is gay. Or sometimes you just aren't the right person.Thanks for nothing, Shakespeare.

Jackson Pearce

We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

R. D. Laing

I believe my past is my strength.

Michel Martelly

Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.

Diana Lopez

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

Djuna Barnes

If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

Mencius

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

Jessica Savitch