Work is a part of life, not the point of it.

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles

Tahereh Mafi

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

William P. Young

It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy.

Lyndon B. Johnson, Answering Nor

My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

Marquis de Sade

The moments of perfect pleasure in Johnson's songs, and the beauty of those songs, remind one that it is not the simple presence of evil that is unbearable; what is unbearable is the impossibility of reconciling the facts of evil with the beauty of the world.

Greil Marcus

I love men who make me laugh.

Nastassja Kinski

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Jean Baudrillard

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

Haruki Murakami

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

Jim Carrey

All love - love of children, love of parents, love of God or life - comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything.

Barry Long