The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

Mika Brzezinski

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

Dalai Lama

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

Paul De Man

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

Lord Halifax

Truth allows no choice

Samuel Johnson

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Frank Moore Colby

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

William Glasser

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.

Paul Ricoeur

If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.

Paulo Coelho

I got myself good this morning too. I did my pushups in the nude, I didn't see the mouse trap.

Rodney Dangerfield

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

Pablo Picasso

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Oscar Wilde