"Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child..."

“Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.”

“Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.”

Source : The Homiletic Review, April 1896.

“Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.”

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”

“I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.”

Source : Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, Pocket Books

“Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of reason, constructed through the methods of public relations, and exhibit so little regard for the real thing.”

“I'm more proud of my upper body. Let's just say I'm a typical female in that way.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites,”

Source : Eli Siegel (1981). “Self and world: an explanation of aesthetic realism”, Definition Pr