Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

Patricia Heaton

I wonder if it hurts to live,And if they have to try,And whether, could they choose between,They would not rather die.

Emily Dickinson

A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.

Albert Camus

If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.

Neil Gaiman

There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales -- and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Darling, everyone is beautiful in her ownway, and I am a fairy.

Gail Carson Levine

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin

And let us not remember Italy the less regardfully, because, in every fragment of her fallen Temples, and every stone of her deserted palaces and prisons, she helps to inculcate the lesson that the wheel of Time is rolling for an end, and that the world is, in all great essentials, better, gentler, more forbearing, and more hopeful, as it rolls!

Charles Dickens

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Bertrand Russell

And say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

Henri Nouwen