When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

Scott Adams

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

Herodotus

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

Ptolemy

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Elisabeth Shue

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

Barry Commoner

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

Richard Pryor

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

Source Unknown

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Michelle Geaney

Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Non, ce n'était pas moi qui comptais, ni le monde, mais seulement l'accord et le silence qui de lui ? moi faisait naître l'amour.

Albert Camus