Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Lorraine Hansberry

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

Dave Barry

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

Max Beerbohm

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.

John Boyd Orr

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

LaoTzu

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Iris Murdoch

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Rene Descartes

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

Harold Evans

I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try.

Seth Rogen

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.

Dag Hammarskjold

The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.

Cassandra Clare

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

David Hare