A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.

Terry Pratchett

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Victor Hugo

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

Peter Buck

I fought for peace in the fifties.

Pete Seeger

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

Eve Ensler

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Then a ploughman said , speak to us of work : in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life ,And to love life throught labour is to be intimate with inmost secrets .And what is it to work with love ?it is to weave the colth with threads from your heart , even as if your beloved were to wear that colth .It is to build a house with affection , even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house .It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy , even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit .It is to change all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit .He who works in marble , and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone , is nobler than he who ploughs the soil.

Kahlil Gibran

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Jonathan Swift

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Henry David Thoreau