I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.

All paid employments... absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

Paul Simon

The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Und

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

William S. Burroughs

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, AllT

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

Thomas Carlyle

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

Lucy Powell

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

Graham Nash

Psychologism is the most comfortable conception of life, because according to it there are no longer any more problems. That is why it also condemns all solutions from the outset, since it acknowledges the actual problems as little as the idea of truth.

Otto Weininger

We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.

Eliot Engel

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides