The words of truth are always paradoxical.

There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail

Mark Twain

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.

Gloria Steinem

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Modern science rests on a universality that transcends ethnic, racial, and religious frameworks.

Varadaraja V. Raman

The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end.

Thomas Jefferson

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

Timothy Garton Ash

The dog is the god of frolic.

Henry Ward Beecher

When one must, one can.

Charlotte Whitton

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Proverb

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

Marat Safin

Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.

Orson Scott Card

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

Guglielmo Marconi