A woman's love is strange and cruel and nearly always clear-sighted, love that sees is always horrible love, and she knew walking away was right and so she walked, dismissing the cries as only another part of the boy's development, like smiles from gas or scraped knees.

The way to get people to love you is to show them that you love them.

Adrienne Maria Vrettos

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

Hermann Hesse

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

David Herbert Lawrence

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

Eric Sevareid

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurement it invites the attention of perfectionists.

Heywood Hale Broun, Tumultuous M

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Bob Marley

I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'

Demetri Martin

We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Mark Twain

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

Wynonna Judd

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.

Aldrich Ames